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Genomic Surveillance Elucidates Persistent Wild Poliovirus Transmission During 2013-2015 in Major Reservoir Areas of Pakistan.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 15 Jan 2016
Alam Muhammad Masroor, Sharif Salmaan, Shaukat Shahzad, Angez Mehar, Khurshid Adnan, Rehman Lubna, Zaidi Syed Sohail Zahoor
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BACKGROUND: Despite tremendous efforts in the fight against polio, Pakistan bears the highest proportion of poliomyelitis cases among the 3 endemic countries including Afghanistan and Nigeria. Apart from insecurity and inaccessibility challenges, the substantial shift of unimmunized children from North Waziristan due to recent military operations was presumed to favor the widespread poliovirus infection in...
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