Laboratory Network within the Polio Eradication Initiative (1998-2003): Six years of surveillance for acute flaccid paralysis in Spain;Red de Laboratorios del Plan de Erradicación de la Poliomielitis (1998-2003): 6 Años de vigilancia de parálisis flácida aguda en España

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 167-172

  Trallero, Gloria ^a   Avellón, Ana ^a   Otero, Almudena ^a   De Miguel, Teresa ^a   Alonso, Milagros ^a   Pérez Breña, Pilar ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute flaccid paralysis surveillance; Enteroviruses; Eradication of poliomyelitis; Polioviruses

Indexed keywords

ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; ECHO VIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS; FLACCID PARALYSIS; HUMAN; POLIOMYELITIS; SPAIN; VACCINATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33646531213     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13086549     Document Type: Article

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