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. 2010 Nov 25;15(47):19723.
doi: 10.2807/ese.15.47.19723-en.

Type 1 wild poliovirus and putative enterovirus 109 in an outbreak of acute flaccid paralysis in Congo, October-November 2010

G Grard  1 , J F Drexler, S Lekana-Douki, M Caron, A Lukashev, D Nkoghe, J P Gonzalez, C Drosten, E Leroy
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Type 1 wild poliovirus and putative enterovirus 109 in an outbreak of acute flaccid paralysis in Congo, October-November 2010

G Grard et al. Euro Surveill. .
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Abstract

An outbreak of flaccid paralysis syndrome in adults is ongoing in Congo. Molecular analysis of faecal, throat and cerebrospinal samples identified wildtype 1 poliovirus and an additional enterovirus C strain related to enterovirus 109 as the cause. As of 22 November, the cumulative number of cases was 409, of which 169 (41.3%) were fatal. This is one of the largest wild type 1 poliovirus outbreaks ever described associated with an unusually high case fatality rate.

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