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Reported cultivation of the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis virus in several human embryonic tissue cultures outside nervous tissue, with evidence of viral propagation under the reported conditions.
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Scientific scope
The record is the exact three-author 1949 Science paper. It establishes the reported tissue-culture result, not a polio vaccine, eradication, clinical efficacy or sole credit for all subsequent poliovirus culture methods.
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- PubMed record for Lansing poliovirus cultivation
- Nobel lecture on cultivation of poliomyelitis viruses
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People and systems
John F. Enders; Thomas H. Weller; Frederick C. Robbins
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Enders, Weller and Robbins: cultivation of Lansing poliovirus in human embryonic tissues
Reported cultivation of the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis virus in several human embryonic tissue cultures outside nervous tissue, with evidence of viral propagation under the reported conditions.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact three-author 1949 Science paper. It establishes the reported tissue-culture result, not a polio vaccine, eradication, clinical efficacy or sole credit for all subsequent poliovirus culture methods.
Reading status
This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
John F. Enders; Thomas H. Weller; Frederick C. Robbins
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.