Characteristics of an Environmentally Monitored Prolonged Type 2 Vaccine Derived Poliovirus Shedding Episode that Stopped without Intervention

Tapani Hovi; Anja Paananen; Soile Blomqvist; Carita Savolainen-Kopra; Haider Al-Hello; Teemu Smura; Hiroyuki Shimizu; Katarina Nadova; Zdenka Sobotova; Eugene Gavrilin; Merja Roivainen

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066849

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Characteristics of an Environmentally Monitored Prolonged Type 2 Vaccine Derived Poliovirus Shedding Episode that Stopped without Intervention

Tapani Hovi ,

* 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
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Anja Paananen,

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
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Soile Blomqvist,

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
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Carita Savolainen-Kopra,

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
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Haider Al-Hello,

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
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Teemu Smura,

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
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Hiroyuki Shimizu,

Affiliation Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
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Katarina Nadova,

Affiliation Health Centre, Municipality of Skalica, Skalica, Slovak Republic
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Zdenka Sobotova,

Affiliation National Reference Centre for Poliomyelitis, Authority of Public Health of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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Eugene Gavrilin,

Affiliation Division of Communicable Diseases, Health Security and Environment, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Merja Roivainen

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
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Characteristics of an Environmentally Monitored Prolonged Type 2 Vaccine Derived Poliovirus Shedding Episode that Stopped without Intervention

Tapani Hovi,
Anja Paananen,
Soile Blomqvist,
Carita Savolainen-Kopra,
Haider Al-Hello,
Teemu Smura,
Hiroyuki Shimizu,
Katarina Nadova,
Zdenka Sobotova,
Eugene Gavrilin

Published: July 31, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066849

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