Jonas Edward Salk, along with four coauthors, published in 1953 preliminary results of studies of immunity to polio resulting from killed-virus vaccine. His work, along with that of Sabin on live attenuated vaccine, published 2 years later, changed the face of orthopedic and spinal deformity surgery.1, 2
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Characteristics and genetic potentialities of experimentally produced and naturally occurring variants of poliomyelitis virus. Ann NY Acad Sci. 1955;61:924–938. MEDLINE |
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