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Isolation of sabin-like polioviruses from wastewater in a country using inactivated polio vaccine [PDF]

, 2008
From 2001 to 2004, Switzerland switched from routine vaccination with oral polio vaccine (OPV) to inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), using both vaccines in the intervening period.
M. A. Pallansch, Pallansch, M A, K. Tobler, A. Metzler, Zurbriggen, S, Abril, C, Tobler, K, S. Zurbriggen, S. Diedrich, Metzler, A, Diedrich, S, C. Abril, M. Ackermann, Ackermann, M   +13 more
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The role of supplementary environmental surveillance to complement acute flaccid paralysis surveillance for wild poliovirus in Pakistan - 2011-2013.

PLoS ONE, 2017
BackgroundMore than 99% of poliovirus infections are non-paralytic and therefore, not detected by acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance. Environmental surveillance (ES) can detect circulating polioviruses from sewage without relying on clinical ...
Tori L Cowger, Cara C Burns, Salmaan Sharif, Howard E Gary, Jane Iber, Elizabeth Henderson, Farzana Malik, Syed Sohail Zahoor Zaidi, Shahzad Shaukat, Lubna Rehman, Mark A Pallansch, Walter A Orenstein   +11 more
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Serum antibodies to polioviruses in a Tuscan population, Italy

, 1990
In order to study the serological status of a population against poliomyelitis, neutralizing antibody for the three types of polioviruses were examined in 742 serum specimens from individuals aged from 1 to 70 years and over were collected during 1985 ...
REALI, DANIELA, RUSCHI M. A., CARDUCCI, ANNALAURA   +2 more
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Containment of polioviruses after eradication and OPV cessation: characterizing risks to improve management.

, 2006
International audienceThe goal of the World Health Organization is to stop routine use of oral poliovirus vaccine shortly after interruption of wild poliovirus transmission.
Mark Pallansch, Chris Wolff, de Gourville, Esther, Wolff, Chris, Tapani Hovi, Desphande, Jagadish, Martin, Javier, Francis Delpeyroux, Hovi, Tapani, Kew, Olen, Esther De Gourville, Jagadish Desphande, Delpeyroux, Francis, Walter Dowdle, Olen Kew, van Der Avoort, Harrie, Pallansch, Mark, Javier Martin, Dowdle, Walter, Harrie Van Der Avoort   +19 more
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Framework for evaluating the risks of paralytic poliomyelitis after global interruption of wild poliovirus transmission

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2004
With the interruption of wild poliovirus transmission globally, the need for new policies to deal with the post certification era will rapidly arise.
Aylward R. Bruce, Cochi Stephen L.
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J Infect Dis [PDF]

This article summarizes the status of environmental surveillance (ES) used by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, provides the rationale for ES, gives examples of ES methods and findings, and summarizes how these data are used to achieve poliovirus ...

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2021 Guidance for Importation of Polioviruses & Potentially Infectious Materials Presentation

Guidance for Importation of Polioviruses & Potentially Infectious ...

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Circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses: current state of knowledge

, 2004
Within the past 4 years, poliomyelitis outbreaks associated with circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPVs) have occurred in Hispaniola (2000-01), the Philippines (2001), and Madagascar (2001-02).
Kew Olen M., Pallansch Mark A., Wright Peter F., Agol Vadim I., Shimizu Hiroyuki, Nathanson Neal, Delpeyroux Francis   +6 more
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Polio eradication surveillance in Sri Lanka, 2019-2023

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine
Objective: To evaluate the polio laboratory surveillance carried out from January, 2019 to May, 2023 by the Polio Regional Reference Laboratory, Sri Lanka.
M.A.Y. Fernando, N. S. Madarasinghe, C. Rangana, N. Weerasinghe, D.C.U.D. Weligamage, J.I. Abeynayake   +5 more
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Public health management of facility-related exposure to live polioviruses: guidance in managing exposed persons for countries hosting facilities that maintain live polioviruses

, 2020
vi, 46 p.This guidance document provides recommendations for the public health management of human exposure to live polioviruses resulting from spills, containment breaches or other incidents in facilities handling polioviruses.
World Health Organization
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