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Eradication of Poliomyelitis

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One of the major goals of the WHO is elimination of polio, but the nature of rapidly evolving enteroviruses makes this task more complex than it initially appears.

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Figure 1: Genomic organization of poliovirus.
Figure 2: Number of confirmed wild-type poliovirus cases in 2000.
Figure 3: Comparison of the nucleotide sequences obtained from viral RNA polymerase (3D)-coding region.

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  1. Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-0033, Tokyo, Japan

    Akio Nomoto

  2. Agency for Cooperation in International Health, 4-11-1 Higashi-machi, Kumamoto City, 862-0901, Kumamoto, Japan

    Isao Arita

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Nomoto, A., Arita, I. Eradication of Poliomyelitis. Nat Immunol 3, 205–208 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni0302-205

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