Sabin, Albert

Sabin, Albert Bruce (1906-1993) A microbiologist born of Jewish heritage as Albert Saperstein in Russia, Sabin later became an American citizen and changed his name. Trained in internal medicine, he conducted research into infectious diseases and assisted in the development of a vaccine to combat encephalitis. His major contribution to medicine was an effective oral polio vaccine, which was administered in mass immunizations... 

Departments of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, f Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 231 Albert Sabin Way, Cincinnati, OH45267-0576, USA... 

In the 1950s, Dr. Jonas Salk and Dr. Albert Sabin from the University of Pittsburgh (USA) worked on polio vaccines. Salk used inactivated polio virus, whereas Sabin developed a live form of polio virus. 

Evangelia G. Kranias,University of Cincinnati, College Medicine, Department of Pharmacology Cell Biophysics, 231 Albert Sabin Way, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0575, E-mail Litsa.kranias uc.edu... 

The World Health Organization advances the oral polio vaccine developed by Albert Sabin (1906-1993) as a safer alternative to the Salk vaccine. 

Experimental Physics, University of Ulm Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, D-89081, Ulm, Germany Tel. +49 731 502 3016 — Fax +49 731 502 3036 E-mail sabine.hild physik.uni-ulm.de... 

Sabine Borgmann, Albert Schulte, Sebastian Neugebauer, and Wolfgang Schuhmann... 

An inactivated trivalent vaccine developed by Jonas Salk was licensed for use in 1955. In 1987, an enhanced-potency inactivated poho vaccine (IPV) was introduced, and it has replaced the original inactivated vaccine. A live attenuated oral polio vaccine (OPV) was developed by Albert Sabin in 1962. OPV was the primary immunizing agent for poliovirus infection. Widespread OPV use is responsible for eradication of wild-type polio in most of the world. However, with no poliovirus circulation in the United States for years, IPV is the recommended vaccine for the primary series and booster dose for children. OPV will continue to be used in the areas of the world that have circulating pohovirus. The CEX7 maintains a stockpile of OPV to be used only in case of an outbreak. ... 

Medicine was still far removed at that time from the levels of care and cure now available. Dr. Dodd was just beginning to treat tuberculosis with streptomycin, one of the miracle drugs that would reverse the ravages of tuberculosis, making it a treatable disease instead of a source of terror and death. Dr. Albert Sabin was at work then at the same hospital developing an oral vaccine for the prevention of poliomyelitis. We residents were treating two buildings full of polio patients in respirators, a stark reminder of how much a vaccine was needed. 

Albert B. Sabin, Epidemic Encephalitis in Military Personnel, of the American Medical Association 133 (February 1, 1947) p. 290. 

RICHARD K. COLL, JOHN K. GILBERT, ALBERT PILOT SABINE STRELLER... 

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