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Genetic analysis and characterization of wild poliovirus type 1 during sustained transmission in a population with >95% vaccine coverage, Israel 2013.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Apr 2015
Shulman Lester M, Martin Javier, Sofer Danit, Burns Cara C, Manor Yossi, Hindiyeh Musa, Gavrilin Eugene, Wilton Thomas, Moran-Gilad Jacob, Gamzo Ronni, Mendelson Ella, Grotto Itamar
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Israel has >95% polio vaccine coverage with the last 9 birth cohorts immunized exclusively with inactivated polio vaccine (IPV). Using acute flaccid paralysis and routine, monthly countrywide environmental surveillance, no wild poliovirus circulation was detected between 1989 and February 2013, after which wild type 1 polioviruses South Asia genotype (WPV1-SOAS) have persistently circulated in...
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