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Laboratory surveillance for wild and vaccine-derived polioviruses--worldwide, January 2007-June 2008.
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report - 5 Sept 2008
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The Global Polio Laboratory Network (GPLN), comprising 145 facilities in 100 countries and operating in all six World Health Organization (WHO) regions, was established in 1988 to support the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. GPLN isolates and characterizes polioviruses from stool specimens of patients with acute flaccid paralysis (AFP), from healthy contacts of AFP patients, and, in some laboratories, from...
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