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Assessment of Enterovirus Excretion and Identification of VDPVs in Patients with Primary Immunodeficiency in India: Outcome of ICMR–WHO Collaborative Study Phase-I

Vaccines, 2023
The emergence of vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPVs) in patients with Primary Immunodeficiency (PID) is a threat to the polio-eradication program. In a first of its kind pilot study for successful screening and identification of VDPV excretion among ...
Madhu Chhanda Mohanty, Mukesh Desai, Ahmad Mohammad, Amita Aggarwal, Geeta Govindaraj, Sagar Bhattad, Harsha Prasada Lashkari, Liza Rajasekhar, Harish Verma, Arun Kumar, Unnati Sawant, Swapnil Yashwant Varose, Prasad Taur, Reetika Malik Yadav, Manogat Tatkare, Mevis Fernandes, Umair Bargir, Sanjukta Majumdar, Athulya Edavazhippurath, Jyoti Rangarajan, Ramesh Manthri, Manisha Ranjan Madkaikar   +21 more
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Interference of Vaccine Derived Polio Viruses with Diagnosis of Enteroviral Diseases in Neonatal Period [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016
Introduction: Enteroviruses (EV) are a common cause of neonatal sepsis especially at the junction of summer and fall. Aim: This study was planned to find the frequency of Enteroviral (EV) sepsis among neonates with clinical sepsis.
Mohammad Saeed Sasan, Alireza Ataei Nakhaei, Abdolvahab Alborzi, Mazyar Ziyaeyan   +3 more
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Prevalence of human enteroviruses among apparently healthy nursery school children in Accra

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2014
INTRODUCTION: Human enteroviruses are common in children causing asymptomatic infections ranging from mild to severe illnesses. In Ghana, information on the prevalence of non-polio enterovirus causing acute flaccid paralysis is available but data on ...
Juliana Attoh, Evangeline Obodai, Theophilus Adiku, John Kofi Odoom   +3 more
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Cases of Acute Flaccid Paralysis Associated with Coxsackievirus A2: Findings of a 20-Year Surveillance in the Russian Federation

Microorganisms, 2022
Surveillance for acute flaccid paralysis syndrome (AFP) in children under 15 is the backbone of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Laboratory examination of stool samples from AFP cases allows the detection of, along with polioviruses, a variety of
Olga E. Ivanova, Armen K. Shakaryan, Nadezhda S. Morozova, Yulia A. Vakulenko, Tatyana P. Eremeeva, Liubov I. Kozlovskaya, Olga Y. Baykova, Elena Y. Shustova, Yulia M. Mikhailova, Natalia I. Romanenkova, Nadezhda R. Rozaeva, Natela I. Dzhaparidze, Nadezhda A. Novikova, Vladimir V. Zverev, Lyudmila N. Golitsyna, Alexander N. Lukashev   +15 more
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Human Enteroviruses implicated in acute flaccid paralysis in Ghana.

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2012
INTRODUCTION: Surveillance of acute flaccid surveillance (AFP) has been used world-wide to monitor the control and eradication of circulating wild polioviruses.
John Kofi Odoom, Evangeline Obodai, Jacob Samson Barnor, Miriam Ashun, Jacob Arthur-Quarm, Mubarak Osei-Kwasi   +5 more
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Detection of Polioviruses in Sewage Using Cell Culture and Molecular Methods [PDF]

Polish Journal of Microbiology, 2016
The work presented here demonstrates the utility of a two-step algorithm for environmental poliovirus surveillance based on: preselection of sewage samples tested for the presence of enteroviral genetic material-RT-PCR assay and detection of infectious ...
Agnieszka Figas, Magdalena Wieczorek, Bogumiła Litwińska, Włodzimierz Gut   +3 more
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OPV strains circulation in HIV infected infants after National Immunisation Days in Bangui, Central African Republic [PDF]

, 2010
Background Humans are the only host of polioviruses, thus the prospects of global polio eradication look reasonable. However, individuals with immunodeficiencies were shown to excrete vaccine derived poliovirus for long periods of time which led to ...
Alexandre Manirakiza, Emmanuella Picard, Richard Ngbale, Didier Menard, Ionela Gouandjika-Vasilache, JP Alexander Jr, WR Dowdle, OM Kew, DN Pavlov, DN Pavlov, M Fernandez-Ibieta, MC Tejiokem, PNUD, I Gouandjika-Vasilache, KA Hennessey, JV Giorgi, D Menard, WHO, DJ Wood, S Guillot, J Balanant, JD Thompson, W Borkowsky, FP Kroon, RW Ryder, WJ Moss, NA Halsey   +26 more
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Environmental Surveillance of Polio and Non-Polio Enterovi¬ruses in Sistan and Balouchestan Province [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2008
Background: Enteroviruses can easily circulate in the population through sewage and they are suitable indicators for environ­mental surveillance. On the other hand, in some countries there are evidences of silent circulation of viruses in sew­age ...
S Hamed Khodaei, M Kargar , H Tabatabaei , M Sarijlou , R Nategh   +4 more
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Global study of viral myocarditis: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Journal of Acute Disease, 2020
Objective: To investigate the prevalence of viral myocarditis worldwide. Methods: We conducted a systematic search for the prevalence of the most common viruses in myocarditis and 75 studies were included for statistical analysis of the prevalence of ...
Masoud Dadashi, Taher Azimi, Ebrahim Faghihloo   +2 more
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Epidemics to eradication: the modern history of poliomyelitis [PDF]

, 2007
Poliomyelitis has afflicted humankind since antiquity, and for nearly a century now, we have known the causative agent, poliovirus. This pathogen is an enterovirus that in recent history has been the source of a great deal of human suffering.
Nidia H De Jesus
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