Exhibit 109 · Research article
The vacuolating virus, S.V.40
Vacuolating virus strains S207, S211 and S215 were derived from types 1, 2 and 3, respectively, of Dr. Albert Sabin’s live attenuated poliomyelitis vaccine.
Merck researchers isolated and named simian virus 40, a vacuolating virus present in the rhesus monkey kidney cell cultures used to make polio vaccine. Several of their isolates came from seed strains of Sabin's live oral polio vaccine.
- Source
- Ben H. Sweet and Maurice R. Hilleman, Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research; Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine 105:420–427
- Date
- November 1960
- Quoted from
- Sweet & Hilleman, Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 105:420-427 (1960), Results, 'Recovery of strains of vacuolating virus', p. 421 (Table I)
- Grade
- Peer-reviewed
- Document
- https://doi.org/10.3181/00379727-105-26128
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- The article itself was not opened; citation and description come from bibliographic records and the IOM report's attribution.