Poliomyelitis Eradication--a Dangerous Endgame
Poliomyelitis Eradication--a Dangerous Endgame
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根除脊髓灰质炎——危险的结局
作者:
N. Nathanson;P. Fine
Efforts to eradicate poliovirus from the face of the Earth have been very successful, thanks in large part to the oral poliovirus vaccine developed by Albert Sabin. However, as
Nathanson and Fine
explain in their Perspective, maintaining a world free from poliomyelitis will not be easy. They discuss the implications of a recent outbreak of paralytic poliomyelitis on the island of Hispaniola from which wild poliovirus was eliminated 10 years previously (
Kew
et al.).