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Epidemics to eradication: the modern history of poliomyelitis

1 Jan 2007

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Poliomyelitis has afflicted humankind since antiquity, and for nearly a century now, we have known the causative agent, poliovirus. This pathogen is an enterovirus that in recent history has been the source of a great deal of human suffering. Although comparatively small, its genome is packed with sufficient information to make it a formidable pathogen. In the last 20 years the Global Polio Eradication Initiative...

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PMID: 17623069
DOI: 10.1186/1743-422x-4-70

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