About the Authors
- Tapani Hovi
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* E-mail: tapani.hovi@thl.fi
Affiliation Virology Unit, Department of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare, a WHO Collaborating Centre for Poliovirus Surveillance and Enterovirus Research, Helsinki, Finland
- Anja Paananen
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Affiliation Virology Unit, Department of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare, a WHO Collaborating Centre for Poliovirus Surveillance and Enterovirus Research, Helsinki, Finland
- Soile Blomqvist
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Affiliation Virology Unit, Department of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare, a WHO Collaborating Centre for Poliovirus Surveillance and Enterovirus Research, Helsinki, Finland
- Carita Savolainen-Kopra
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Affiliation Virology Unit, Department of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare, a WHO Collaborating Centre for Poliovirus Surveillance and Enterovirus Research, Helsinki, Finland
- Haider Al-Hello
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Affiliation Virology Unit, Department of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare, a WHO Collaborating Centre for Poliovirus Surveillance and Enterovirus Research, Helsinki, Finland
- Teemu Smura
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Affiliation Virology Unit, Department of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare, a WHO Collaborating Centre for Poliovirus Surveillance and Enterovirus Research, Helsinki, Finland
- Hiroyuki Shimizu
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Affiliation Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
- Katarina Nadova
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Affiliation Health Centre, Municipality of Skalica, Skalica, Slovak Republic
- Zdenka Sobotova
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Affiliation National Reference Centre for Poliomyelitis, Authority of Public Health of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
- Eugene Gavrilin
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Affiliation Division of Communicable Diseases, Health Security and Environment, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Merja Roivainen
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Affiliation Virology Unit, Department of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare, a WHO Collaborating Centre for Poliovirus Surveillance and Enterovirus Research, Helsinki, Finland
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TH EG MR. Performed the experiments: AP SB ZS KN HA HS. Analyzed the data: TH SB CSK TS MR. Wrote the paper: TH CSK TS SB.