Multiple independent emergences of type 2 vaccine-derived polioviruses during a large outbreak in northern Nigeria.

CC, Burns; J, Shaw; J, Jorba; D, Bukbuk; F, Adu; N, Gumede; MA, Pate; EA, Abanida; A, Gasasira; J, Iber; Q, Chen; A, Vincent; P, Chenoweth; E, Henderson; K, Wannemuehler; A, Naeem; RN, Umami; Y, Nishimura; H, Shimizu; M, Baba; A, Adeniji; AJ, Williams; DR, Kilpatrick; MS, Oberste; SG, Wassilak; O, Tomori; MA, Pallansch; O, Kew

doi:10.1128/jvi.02954-12

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Multiple independent emergences of type 2 vaccine-derived polioviruses during a large outbreak in northern Nigeria.

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Burns CC

Shaw J

Jorba J

Abstract

Since 2005, a large poliomyelitis outbreak associated with type 2 circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV2) has occurred in northern Nigeria, where immunization coverage with trivalent oral poliovirus vaccine (tOPV) has been low. Phylogenetic analysis of P1/capsid region sequences of isolates ...

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