Progress Toward Laboratory Containment of Poliovirus After Polio Eradication
Author(s) -
Christopher Wolff,
Sigrun Roesel,
Galina Lipskaya,
Mauricio Landaverde,
Humayun Asghar,
Nalini Withana,
Nalini Ramamurty,
Oyewale Tomori,
Samuel Okiror,
Mbaye Salla,
Walter R. Dowdle
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.69
H-Index - 252
eISSN - 1537-6613
pISSN - 0022-1899
DOI - 10.1093/infdis/jit821
Subject(s) - poliomyelitis , poliomyelitis eradication , poliovirus , disease eradication , polio vaccination , environmental health , infectious disease (medical specialty) , medicine , geography , virology , disease , virus , pathology
The first steps (phase 1) toward laboratory containment of poliovirus after eradication are a national survey of biomedical facilities and a global inventory of such facilities retaining wild poliovirus (WPV) infectious and potentially infectious materials.
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