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New polio study results reported from South Africa, People's Republic of China and United Kingdom

Published in Vaccine Weekly, February 14th, 2007

Polio study results from South Africa, People's Republic of China and United Kingdom were highlighted recently in medical journals.

Study 1: A report, "Prevalence of vaccine-derived polioviruses in stools of immunodeficient children in South Africa," is newly published data in Journal of Applied Microbiology. According to recent research from Pretoria, South Africa, "The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPVs) in stool specimens of immunodeficient patients such as HIV-positive children (including those with an AIDS indicator condition, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention classification) by applying...

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