Type 1 wild poliovirus and putative enterovirus 109 in an outbreak of acute flaccid paralysis in Congo, October-November 2010

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 15, Issue 47, 2010, Pages

  Grard, G ^a,b   Drexler, J F ^b,c   Lekana Douki, S ^a,b   Caron, M ^a   Lukashev, A ^d   Nkoghe, D ^a   Gonzalez, J P ^a   Drosten, C ^c   Leroy, E ^a,b,e  

^a CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉDICALES DE FRANCEVILLE   (Gabon)

^b These authors contributed equally to this work   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d CHUMAKOV INSTITUTE OF POLIOMYELITIS AND VIRAL ENCEPHALITIDES   (Russian Federation)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGO; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS 109; FLACCID PARALYSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS 1; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 78649784316     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/ese.15.47.19723-en     Document Type: Article

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