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Highly divergent neurovirulent vaccine-derived polioviruses of all three serotypes are recurrently detected in Finnish sewage.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 13 May 2010
Roivainen M, Blomqvist S, Al-Hello H, Paananen A, Delpeyroux F, Delpeyreux F, Kuusi M, Hovi T
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In Finland, surveillance of potential re-emergence of poliovirus transmission is mainly based on environmental surveillance, i.e. search for infectious poliovirus in sewage samples. Since December 2008, 21 genetically highly divergent, neurovirulent vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPV) have been isolated from sewage in Tampere, Finland. While the source of the VDPV is unknown, characteristics of the viruses...
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