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Laboratory surveillance for wild and vaccine-derived polioviruses--worldwide, January 2006-June 2007.
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report - 21 Sept 2007
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The Global Polio Laboratory Network (GPLN) was established after announcement of the 1988 World Health Assembly resolution to eradicate poliomyelitis. Operating in all six World Health Organization (WHO) regions, the network currently has 146 laboratories that test stool specimens from acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) patients for polioviruses. The virologic data provided by GPLN underpin the global polio...
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