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The role of supplementary environmental surveillance to complement acute flaccid paralysis surveillance for wild poliovirus in Pakistan – 2011–2013

BACKGROUND: More than 99% of poliovirus infections are non-paralytic and therefore, not detected by acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance. Environmental surveillance (ES) can detect circulating polioviruses from sewage without relying on clinical presentation. With extensive ES and continued ci...

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Autores principales: Cowger, Tori L., Burns, Cara C., Sharif, Salmaan, Gary, Howard E., Iber, Jane, Henderson, Elizabeth, Malik, Farzana, Zahoor Zaidi, Syed Sohail, Shaukat, Shahzad, Rehman, Lubna, Pallansch, Mark A., Orenstein, Walter A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5526532/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28742803
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180608