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Particle Agglutination Method for Poliovirus Identification
Published on: April 20, 2011
Protection against poliomyelitis in Europe
H Nokleby1, H De Carvalho Gomes, K Johansen
1European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden. hanne.nokleby@ecdc.europa.eu
Abstract:
The reappearance of circulating wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV 1) in Tajikistan is the first outbreak from imported wild poliovirus since the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region was declared polio-free in 2002. The risk of poliomyelitis importation to the European Union and European Economic Area countries has probably not increased, but the current outbreak is a reminder that high vaccination coverage, monitoring of protective immunity and maintaining surveillance are important to sustain the present polio-free situation.
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