@article{a535d6de3cbb4e16b813734afae3abc6,
title = "Laboratory challenges in response to silent introduction and sustained transmission of wild poliovirus type 1 in Israel during 2013",
abstract = "Wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) introduction into southern Israel in early 2013 was detected by routine environmental surveillance. The virus was identified genetically as related to the South Asian (SOAS) R3A lineage endemic to Pakistan in 2012. Intensified, high-throughput environmental surveillance using advanced molecular methods played a critical role in documenting and locating sustained transmission throughout 2013 and early 2014 in the absence of any acute flaccid paralysis. It guided the public health responses, including stool-based surveillance and serosurveys, to determine the point prevalence in silent excretors and measured the effect of vaccination campaigns with inactivated polio vaccine and bivalent oral polio vaccine on stopping transmission.",
keywords = "emergency health policy response, environmental surveillance, epidemiology, molecular analysis, silent poliovirus transmission, vaccine, wild poliovirus",
author = "Shulman, {Lester M.} and Ella Mendelson and Emilia Anis and Ravit Bassal and Michael Gdalevich and Musa Hindiyeh and Ehud Kaliner and Eran Kopel and Yossi Manor and Jacob Moran-Gilad and Daniella Ram and Danit Sofer and Eli Somekh and Diana Tasher and Merav Weil and Ronni Gamzu and Itamar Grotto",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved.",
year = "2014",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1093/infdis/jiu294",
language = "אנגלית",
volume = "210",
pages = "S304--S314",
journal = "Journal of Infectious Diseases",
issn = "0022-1899",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
}