Brote de poliomielitis en Haití y la República Dominicana debido a un virus derivado de la vacuna antipoliomielítica oral

• Main Authors: Landaverde Mauricio, Venczel Linda, Quadros Ciro A. de
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2001
• Subjects: Poliovirus salvaje; parálisis flácida aguda; poliomielitis; vacuna antipoliomielítica oral; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Aguda
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/3399451a302a47848ff3bd6961c900c9

In October 2000, the Ministries of Health of the Dominican Republic and Haiti notified two cases of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) in rural areas, one of them in a 9-month-old female, and the other in a 2-year-old female, respectively. Stool samples that were obtained from these cases, which occurred...