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Dr. Katz’s discussion is a very concise and lucid exposition on the value of a genome rescue on the resolution of the etiology of a disease. Using this approach, we have (uncovered a potential candidate for inclusion in the slow virus disease family, namely, rubella. Recently, there have been two studies describing a hitherto unreported late complication of congenital rubella viral infection that becomes manifest as a chronic progressive panencephalitis.
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Lennette, E.H. (1977). Comment/Chapter 7. In: ter Meulen, V., Katz, M. (eds) Slow Virus Infections of the Central Nervous System. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-9883-0_16
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