Detection of imported wild polioviruses and of vaccine-derived polioviruses by environmental surveillance in Egypt

Appl Environ Microbiol. 2012 Aug;78(15):5406-9. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00491-12. Epub 2012 May 11.

Abstract

Systematic environmental surveillance for poliovirus circulation has been conducted in Egypt since 2000. The surveillance has revealed three independent importations of wild-type poliovirus. In addition, several vaccine-derived polioviruses have been detected in various locations in Egypt. In addition to acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance, environmental surveillance can be used to monitor the wild poliovirus and vaccine-derived poliovirus circulation in populations in support of polio eradication initiatives.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Base Sequence
  • Egypt / epidemiology
  • Environmental Microbiology*
  • Humans
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Paralysis / epidemiology*
  • Paralysis / virology
  • Phylogeny
  • Poliomyelitis / epidemiology
  • Poliovirus / genetics*
  • Population Dynamics
  • Public Health Surveillance / methods*
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Sewage / virology*

Substances

  • Sewage