Deficiency of immunity to poliovirus type 3: a lurking danger?
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- 26 January 2012
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 12 (1), 24
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-12-24
Abstract
Europe was certified to be polio-free in 2002 by the WHO. However, wild polioviruses remain endemic in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria, occasionally causing polio outbreaks, as in Tajikistan in 2010. Therefore, effective surveillance measures and vaccination campaigns remain important. To determine the poliovirus immune status of a German study population, we retrospectively evaluated the seroprevalence of neutralizing antibodies (NA) to the poliovirus types 1, 2 and 3 (PV1, 2, 3) in serum samples collected from 1,632 patients admitted the University Hospital of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 2001, 2005 and 2010.Keywords
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