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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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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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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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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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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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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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Recombination in enteroviruses is a biphasic replicative process involving the generation of greater-than genome length 'imprecise' intermediates [PDF]

, 2014
Recombination in enteroviruses provides an evolutionary mechanism for acquiring extensive regions of novel sequence, is suggested to have a role in genotype diversity and is known to have been key to the emergence of novel neuropathogenic variants of ...
David J Evans, Woodman, Andrew, Andrew Woodman, Kym Lowry (222718), Jonathan Cook (3435386), Andrew Woodman (577477), Cook, Jonathan, Cook, Jonathan P., David J. Evans (208308), Lowry, Kym, David J. Evans, Evans, David J., Kym Lowry, Jonathan Cook   +13 more
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Non-Polio Enteroviruses in Acute Flaccid Paralysis: Analysis of Surveillance in Iraq from 2018 to 2024

مجلة كلية الطب
Background: Acute flaccid paralysis surveillance, forms the basis for poliovirus eradication efforts and  provides useful data on non-polio enteroviruses, which are significant causes of acute flaccid paralysis in polio-free countries.
Nadia A. Nasir, Murad Th. Mehmoud, Muhi K. Al-Janabi, Khailil I. Mohammed   +3 more
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Environmental surveillance of poliovirus and non-polio enterovirus in urban sewage in Dakar, Senegal (2007-2013)

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2014
BACKGROUND: Global poliomyelitis eradication initiative relies on (i) laboratory based surveillance of acute flaccid surveillance (AFP) to monitor the circulation of wild poliovirus in a population, and (ii) vaccination to prevent its diffusion. However,
Abdou Kader Ndiaye, Pape Amadou Mbathio Diop, Ousmane Madiagne Diop   +2 more
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Molecular Pathogenicity of Enteroviruses Causing Neurological Disease

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
Enteroviruses are single-stranded positive-sense RNA viruses that primarily cause self-limiting gastrointestinal or respiratory illness. In some cases, these viruses can invade the central nervous system, causing life-threatening neurological diseases ...
Anna Majer, Alan McGreevy, Alan McGreevy, Alan McGreevy, Timothy F. Booth, Timothy F. Booth   +5 more
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