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PERIODIC EXAMINATION OF SEWAGE FOR THE VIRUS OF POLIOMYELITIS
1Department of Pediatrics and the Section of Preventive Medicine of the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven.
The Journal of Experimental Medicine
|October 30, 2009
Abstract:
From a series of tests covering 15 months, another instance is recorded of the detection of the virus of poliomyelitis in urban sewage. It has not yet been possible to detect the virus of poliomyelitis in sewage during non-epidemic periods. It is likely that the periodic sampling of sewage for pathogenic viruses or bacteria may be a method of epidemiological value.
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