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标题：Australia's last reported case of wild poliovirus infection
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作者：Margery L Kennett ; Kerri Anne Brussen ; David J Wood 等
期刊名称：Communicable Diseases Intelligence
印刷版ISSN：1447-4514
电子版ISSN：1445-4866
出版年度：1999
卷号：23
期号：3
页码：77-79
出版社：Government Department of Health and Ageing
摘要：In 1986 tests on faeces collected from a 22 year old Australian born man who had symptoms consistent withpoliomyelitis yielded poliovirus type 3. In a neutralisation test using a panel of monoclonal antibodies the isolatewas identified as wild poliovirus type 3 at that time. After further classification using microneutralisation, nucleicacid probe hybridisation, immunoassay and sequencing carried out in three laboratories between 1994 and 1997,the isolate has been reclassified as 'Sabin-like' with 'wild type' characteristics. This case has been quoted in theliterature as Australia's last case of locally acquired wild poliovirus. Efforts are now being made to identify the truelast case in Australia. This article describes the isolation, identification and further characterisation of this virus.