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标题：Importation of wild poliovirus into Australia, July 2007
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作者：Bruce Thorley ; Heath Kelly ; Jason Roberts 等
期刊名称：Communicable Diseases Intelligence
印刷版ISSN：1447-4514
电子版ISSN：1445-4866
出版年度：2007
卷号：31
期号：3
出版社：Government Department of Health and Ageing
摘要：On 13 July 2007, the National Poliovirus Reference Laboratory (NPRL), which is part of the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, con-firmed infection with wild poliovirus serotype 1 in an overseas-born student who had recently returned from Pakistan. This is the first laboratory confirmed case of polio due to wild poliovirus reported in Australia since 1977. Pakistan is one of the four remaining polio endemic countries along with India, Afghanistan and Nigeria.1Wild poliovirus is currently circulating in six other countries – Angola, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Niger and Somalia – due to importation from endemic countries.1The Australian wild poliovirus importation was characterised by the methods described in the accompanying annual report of the NPRL