Population Immunity against Serotype-2 Poliomyelitis Leading up to the Global Withdrawal of the Oral Poliovirus Vaccine: Spatio-temporal Modelling of Surveillance Data

• Margarita Pons-Salort ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Margarita Pons-Salort, Natalie A. Molodecky

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, St Mary’s Campus, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Natalie A. Molodecky ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Margarita Pons-Salort, Natalie A. Molodecky

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, St Mary’s Campus, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Kathleen M. O’Reilly,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, St Mary’s Campus, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Mufti Zubair Wadood,

  Affiliation World Health Organization, Islamabad, Pakistan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7113-1855

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• Rana M. Safdar,

  Affiliation National Emergency Operation Centre, Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination, Islamabad, Pakistan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1720-7457

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• Andrew Etsano,

  Affiliation National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Abuja, Nigeria

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• Rui Gama Vaz,

  Affiliation World Health Organization, Abuja, Nigeria

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• Hamid Jafari,

  Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Nicholas C. Grassly,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, St Mary’s Campus, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Isobel M. Blake

  * E-mail: isobel.blake@imperial.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, St Mary’s Campus, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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