Outbreaks of paralytic poliomyelitis during 1996-2012: The changing epidemiology of a disease in the final stages of eradication

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 210, Issue , 2014, Pages S275-S282

  Mach, Ondrej ^a   Tangermann, Rudolf H ^a   Wassilak, Steve G ^b   Singh, Simarjit ^a   Sutter, Roland W ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

outbreak; poliomyelitis; poliovirus eradication

Indexed keywords

ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CONGO; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARALYTIC POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; REVIEW; TREND STUDY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WILD POLIOVIRUS TYPE 1; WILD POLIOVIRUS TYPE 3; AGED; DISEASE ERADICATION; HEALTH; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TRANSMISSION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE ERADICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLIOMYELITIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84910675168     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jit454     Document Type: Review

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