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Preventing Importation of Poliovirus in the Horn of Africa: The Success of the Cross-Border Health Initiative in Kenya and Somalia

In 2013, the outbreak of wild poliovirus (WPV) in the Horn of Africa (HOA) triggered an aggressive, coordinated national and regional response to interrupt continued transmission. Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, South Sudan, and other HOA countries share a range of complex factors that enabled the outbrea...

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Autores principales: Arale, Ahmed, Lutukai, Mercy, Mohamed, Somane, Bologna, Lydia, Stamidis, Katherine V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6776092/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31760979
http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.19-0040