Romanian Journal of Internal Medicine (Dec 2017)

The integration of the molecular methods in the diagnosis algorithm for the poliovirus detection in the sewage water: comparing concentration and detection methods. A Pilot Study

  • Băicuş Anda

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/rjim-2017-0028
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 55, no. 4
pp. 245 – 248

Abstract

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Introduction. Two cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1(cVDPV1), from southwestern Ukraine, bordering Romania, were confirmed in 2015 and the environmental enterovirus surveillance was enhanced in our country. The molecular detection of human enteroviruses as a screening test followed by isolation on cell culture lines or sequencing could be proposed as a new diagnosis algorithm.

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