Environmental surveillance of wild poliovirus circulation in Egypt—Balancing between detection sensitivity and workload

Examination of sewage specimens for poliovirus (environmental surveillance) was adopted as a supplementary tool in the surveillance of poliomyelitis in Egypt. Sewage samples were concentrated about 50-fold using a simple two-phase separation technique, and inoculated in cell cultures in two collabor...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of virological methods 2005-06, Vol.126 (1), p.127-134
Hauptverfasser: Hovi, Tapani, Blomqvist, Soile, Nasr, Eman, Burns, Cara C., Sarjakoski, Tarja, Ahmed, Nahed, Savolainen, Carita, Roivainen, Merja, Stenvik, Mirja, Laine, Pia, Barakat, Ibrahim, Wahdan, Mohammed H., Kamel, Faten A., Asghar, Humayun, Pallansch, Mark A., Kew, Olen M., Gary, Howard E., deGourville, Esther M., Bassioni, Laila El
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