Interruption of poliovirus transmission in ghana: Molecular epidemiology of wild-type 1 poliovirus isolated from 1995 to 2008

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 206, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1111-1120

  Odoom, John Kofi ^a,b   Forrest, Lindsay ^a   Dunn, Glynis ^a   Osei Kwasi, Mubarak ^b   Obodai, Evangeline ^b   Arthur Quarm, Jacob ^b   Barnor, Jacob ^b   Minor, Philip D ^a   Martin, Javier ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STANDARDS AND CONTROL   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Ghana   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLACCID PARALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GHANA; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION CONTROL; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS 1; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; DISEASE ERADICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FECES; GHANA; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MASS VACCINATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PARAPLEGIA; PHYLOGENY; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOVIRUS; POLIOVIRUS VACCINE, INACTIVATED; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84866073377     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jis474     Document Type: Review

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