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¹Department of Infectious Disease, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India; Emerging Infections Subcommittee, European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease, Basel, Switzerland.

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Acute flaccid paralysis Gaza Oral polio vaccine Polio Vaccine-derived poliovirus

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