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Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 1993 O artigo descreve o processo através do qual alguns conceitos de vigilância epidemiológica são elaborados e transformados em categorias operacionais, constituindo, assim, o Sistema de Vigilância Epidemiológica de algumas doenças transmissíveis.
José Fernando de S. Verani +2 more
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Brazilian Journal of Infectious DiseasesOBJECTIVES: Estimate the prevalence of immunity to poliomyelitis (anti-polio antibodies) in the city of São Paulo/Brazil through a population-based survey.
Carlos Roberto Veiga Kiffer +4 more
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Poliomyelitis in modern conditions: achievements and prospects
Журнал инфектологии, 2018 The creation in the middle of the 20th century vaccines against poliomyelitis (PM) – inactivated vaccine (IPV) and live oral vaccine from Sabin strains (OPV) with various properties, advantages and disadvantages, but highly effective, made it possible
O. E. Ivanova
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Certification of poliomyelitis eradication in Singapore and the challenges ahead.
Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, 2012 INTRODUCTION This study reviewed the epidemiological trends of poliomyelitis from 1946 to 2010, and the impact of the national immunisation programme in raising the population herd immunity against poliovirus.
Hwee Ching Lee +9 more
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Seroepidemiology: an underused tool for designing and monitoring vaccination programmes in low- and middle-income countries. [PDF]
, 2016 Seroepidemiology, the use of data on the prevalence of bio-markers of infection or vaccination, is a potentially powerful tool to understand the epidemiology of infection before vaccination and to monitor the effectiveness of vaccination programmes ...
Cutts, Felicity T, Hanson, Matt
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Polio Vaccines: Present and Future
Эпидемиология и вакцинопрофилактика, 2018 The history of polio vaccines and their use illustrates the concept of evolution of vaccines driven by changing epidemiological and socioeconomic conditions.
K. Chumakov, A. A. Ishmukhametov
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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 +2 more
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, 2018 In 1988, the World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), with the resolve to interrupt transmission of wild poliovirus (WPV) worldwide by the year 2000.
A. Ike +4 more
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WHO criteria for measles elimination: A critique with reference to criteria for polio elimination [PDF]
, 2009 Smallpox was formally declared as eradicated in 1979. Smallpox is the only infectious disease of humans that has ever been eradicated. Poliomyelitis has been eliminated from three of the six World Health Organization (WHO) regions although not all ...
Heywood, A. +3 more
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Global health goals: lessons from the worldwide effort to eradicate poliomyelitis [PDF]
, 2003 R. Bruce Aylward +4 more
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