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Environmental surveillance of poliovirus in sewage water around the introduction period for inactivated polio vaccine in Japan.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Mar 2015
Nakamura Tomofumi, Hamasaki Mitsuhiro, Yoshitomi Hideaki, Ishibashi Tetsuya, Yoshiyama Chiharu, Maeda Eriko, Sera Nobuyuki, Yoshida Hiromu
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Environmental virus surveillance was conducted at two independent sewage plants from urban and rural areas in the northern prefecture of the Kyushu district, Japan, to trace polioviruses (PVs) within communities. Consequently, 83 PVs were isolated over a 34-month period from April 2010 to January 2013. The frequency of PV isolation at the urban plant was 1.5 times higher than that at the rural plant. Molecular...
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