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Environmental Surveillance and Vaccine Derived Polio Virus type 2 Isolation, Gombe State, Nigeria.
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Nigeria is the only country in Africa yet to be certified free of Wild Polio Virus (WPV). The country consists of 36 States and a Federal Capital Territory. Gombe is one of the 19 Polio high risk States in the North-eastern geo-political zone of the… read more… There has been a gradual increase in the number of ES sites in Nigeria from 2011 to date. The increase is largely … successes recorded in terms of the PV isolation from the sites, PV epidemiology, the large population size and … ES was initiated in Gombe State in December 2016. Four ES sites were identified and sample collection began soon after …