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Particle Agglutination Method for Poliovirus Identification
Published on: April 20, 2011
[Survival of the poliomyelitis virus in environmental objects]
Voprosy Virusologii
|May 1, 1988
Abstract:
The guanidine-dependent variant of poliovirus type I was shown to survive in soil and on tomato plants for 60 and 25 days, and in the roots, stems, leaves for 15, 20, and 8 days, respectively. Extrapolation of the significance of these results indicates that the decline of concentration of the indicator virus in the soil and on the vegetables and its increase and decline in the root system, stems, leaves, and in tomatoes is of exponential nature.
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