Role of environmental poliovirus surveillance in global polio eradication and beyond

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-13

  Hovi, T ^a   Shulman, L M ^b   Van Der Avoort, H ^c   Deshpande, J ^d   Roivainen, M ^a   De Gourville, E M ^e  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d Enterovirus Research Centre (ERC)   (India)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Infectious disease epidemiology; polio; polio vaccine virus; public health; surveillance

Indexed keywords

ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FECES ANALYSIS; FLACCID PARALYSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; MASS IMMUNIZATION; NONHUMAN; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; REVIEW; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WILD TYPE;

DISEASE ERADICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOVIRUS; POLIOVIRUS VACCINES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEWAGE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 82455199169     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095026881000316X     Document Type: Review

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