Outbreak of poliomyelitis in Gizan, Saudi Arabia: Cocirculation of wild type 1 polioviruses from three separate origins

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 175, Issue 2 SUPPL., 1997, Pages

  Afif, Huda ^b   Sutter, Roland W ^a   Kew, Olen M ^b   Fontaine, Robert E ^b   Pallansch, Mark A ^b   Goyal, Mahesh K ^b   Cochi, Stephen L ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DIS CONTR AND PREV   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUDI ARABIA; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 0031030304     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/175.supplement_1.s71     Document Type: Article

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