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Deficiency of immunity to poliovirus type 3: a lurking danger? [PDF]

, 2012
Background: Europe was certified to be polio-free in 2002 by the WHO. However, wild polioviruses remain endemic in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria, occasionally causing polio outbreaks, as in Tajikistan in 2010.
Doerr, Hans W., Friedrichs, Imke, Rabenau, Holger, Reinheimer, Claudia   +3 more
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Comparison of Micro-Census Results for Magarya Ward, Wurno Local Government Area of Sokoto State, Nigeria, with Other Sources of Denominator Data

Data, 2019
Routine immunization coverage in Nigeria is suboptimal. In the northwestern state of Sokoto, an independent population-based survey for 2016 found immunization coverage with the third dose of Pentavalent vaccine to be 3%, whereas administrative coverage ...
Margherita E. Ghiselli, Idongesit Nta Wilson, Brian Kaplan, Ndadilnasiya Endie Waziri, Adamu Sule, Halimatu Bolatito Ayanleke, Faruk Namalam, Shehu Ahmad Tambuwal, Nuruddeen Aliyu, Umar Kadi, Omotayo Bolu, Nyampa Barau, Mohammed Yahaya, Gideon Ugbenyo, Ugochukwu Osigwe, Clara Oguji, Nnamdi Usifoh, Vincent Seaman   +17 more
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Endgame for polio eradication? Options for overcoming social and political factors in the progress to eradicating polio. [PDF]

, 2015
In 1988, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) was launched with the goal of eradicating polio by the year 2000. After 25 years, several dynamics still challenge this large public health campaign with new cases of polio being reported annually ...
Ganapathiraju, Pavan, Morssink, Christiaan B, Plumb, James D   +2 more
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An education and negotiation of differences: the ‘schooling’ experiences of English-speaking Canadian children growing up with polio during the 1940s and 1950s [PDF]

, 2013
In this paper we present oral narratives focusing on schooling experiences of Canadians who lived with polio as children between 1940 and 1959. We argue that disabled students with polio received an education about the differences ascribed to them by ...
Ellis, J., Shanouda, F., Yoshida, K. K.
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Characteristics of Patients at First Visit to a Polio Clinic in Sweden. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Describe polio patients visiting a polio clinic in Sweden, a country where vaccination was introduced in 1957.A consecutive cohort study.Prior polio patients.All patients (n = 865) visiting the polio clinic at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg ...
Katarina Skough Vreede, Katharina S Sunnerhagen   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Genetic characterization and molecular epidemiology of Coxsackievirus A12 from mainland China during 2010–2019

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
Coxsackievirus A12 (CVA12) is an enterovirus that has been isolated in many countries in recent years. However, studies on CVA12 are limited, and its effective population size, evolutionary dynamics and recombination patterns have not been clarified now.
Qin Guo, Qin Guo, Hehe Zhao, Yong Zhang, Yong Zhang, Xianjun Wang, Qiuli Yu, Zhaolin Tan, Huanhuan Lu, Jinbo Xiao, Tianjiao Ji, Shuangli Zhu, Dongyan Wang, Qian Yang, Zhenzhi Han, Wenbo Xu, Dongmei Yan   +16 more
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The Last Mile in Polio Eradication: Program Challenges and Perseverance

Pathogens
As the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) strategizes towards the final steps of eradication, routine immunization schedules evolve, and high-quality vaccination campaigns and surveillance systems remain essential.
Rocio Lopez Cavestany, Martin Eisenhawer, Ousmane M. Diop, Harish Verma, Arshad Quddus, Ondrej Mach   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Islamist insurgency and the war against polio: a cross-national analysis of the political determinants of polio. [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: There is widespread agreement that civil war obstructs efforts to eradicate polio. It is suggested that Islamist insurgents have a particularly negative effect on vaccination programmes, but this claim is controversial.
Kennedy, Jonathan, King, Lawrence, McKee, Martin   +2 more
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Polio

Chest, 2011
Polio continúa endémica en: Nigeria, Afganistán Pakistán e India. La iniciativa global de erradicación de polio de la OMS estableció que para 2013 no debe haber ningún niño paralítico en el mundo por el virus salvaje o por el virus derivado de la vacuna.
Echezuría, Luis, Castillo de Febres, Olga   +1 more
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Conducting public health surveillance in areas of armed conflict and restricted population access: a qualitative case study of polio surveillance in conflict-affected areas of Borno State, Nigeria

Conflict and Health, 2022
This study examined the impact of armed conflict on public health surveillance systems, the limitations of traditional surveillance in this context, and innovative strategies to overcome these limitations.
Eric Wiesen, Raymond Dankoli, Melton Musa, Jeff Higgins, Joseph Forbi, Jibrin Idris, Ndadilnasiya Waziri, Oladapo Ogunbodede, Kabiru Mohammed, Omotayo Bolu, Gatei WaNganda, Usman Adamu, Eve Pinsker   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source