Detection of imported wild polioviruses and of vaccine-derived polioviruses by environmental surveillance in Egypt

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 5406-5409

  Blomqvist, Soile ^a   El Bassioni, Laila ^b   Nasr, Eman M El Maamoon ^b   Paananen, Anja ^a   Kaijalainen, Svetlana ^a   Asghar, Humayun ^b   de Gourville, Esther ^b   Roivainen, Merja ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEILLANCE; POLIO ERADICATION; POLIOVIRUS; WILD TYPES;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

VACCINES;

DETECTION METHOD; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH POLICY; IMPORT; MONITORING; POLIOMYELITIS; VACCINE; VIRUS; WILD POPULATION;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EGYPT; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEWAGE; VIROLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; EGYPT; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOVIRUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE;

EGYPT;

POLIOVIRUS;

EID: 84866169741     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00491-12     Document Type: Article

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