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Cara C. Burns

Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Publications -  91
Citations -  5809

Cara C. Burns is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poliomyelitis & Poliomyelitis eradication. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 71 publications receiving 4937 citations. Previous affiliations of Cara C. Burns include National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases & Government of the United States of America.

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Environmental Surveillance for Polioviruses in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative

TL;DR: The status of environmental surveillance used by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative is summarized, the rationale for ES is provided, examples of ES methods and findings are given, and how these data are used to achieve poliovirus eradication are summarized.
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Vaccine-Derived Polioviruses

TL;DR: The attenuated oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) has many properties favoring its use in polio eradication: ease of administration, efficient induction of intestinal immunity, induction of durable humoral immunity, and low cost.
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Modulation of Poliovirus Replicative Fitness in HeLa Cells by Deoptimization of Synonymous Codon Usage in the Capsid Region

TL;DR: Perhaps unexpectedly, the synthesis and processing of viral proteins appeared to be largely unaltered by the restriction in codon usage, and the replicative fitness of both codon replacement viruses and unmodified viruses increased with the passage number in HeLa cells.