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Molecular epidemiology of an outbreak of poliomyelitis in South Africa in 1987/1988
Author(s) -
Tsilimigras C. W. A.,
Rossouw E.,
Schoub B. D.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of medical virology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1096-9071
pISSN - 0146-6615
DOI - 10.1002/jmv.1890350209
Subject(s) - virology , outbreak , poliomyelitis , epidemiology , molecular epidemiology , medicine , environmental health , geography , biology , genotype , genetics , pathology , gene
An Outbreak of paralytic poliomyelitis occurred in the Republic of South Africa in 1987/88. The epidemic took place in the Natal/KwaZulu region of South Africa and was due to type 1 poliovirus. Twenty‐four isolates were characterised by 1‐and 2‐ dimensional oligonucleotide mapping and a single strain of wild‐type poliovirus was identified. The same strain of virus was also isolated in other areas of South Africa at the time of the outbreak and has persisted into 1989.