"Immunity Status to Polio Viruses among Non-European Union Immigrants in Veneto Region (North-East Italy)."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science, "Widespread use of poliovirus vaccines has lead to a dramatic decline on the incidence of paralytic poliomyelitis in the Western Hemisphere. In Italy, the use of live attenuated vaccine (OPV) has lead to virtual eradication of poliomyelitis. However, wild poliovirus is still endemic in some less developed countries, and there is still a risk of importation of wild-virus poliomyelitis as result of immigration from these areas. Therefore, a serologic study of the immunologic status to poliovirus was carried out in 242 immigrants from less developed countries in the Veneto Region...

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