Australian National Enterovirus Reference Laboratory annual report, 2019
| Autor: | Bruce R Thorley, Aishah Ibrahim, Matthew E Kaye, Leesa D. Bruggink, Jason A. Roberts, Linda K Hobday, Arnau Garcia-Clapes, Presa Chanthalavanh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0301 basic medicine
Acute flaccid paralysis Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Poliovirus virus diseases General Medicine Annual report Reference laboratory medicine.disease_cause medicine.disease Poliomyelitis Vaccination 03 medical and health sciences 030104 developmental biology 0302 clinical medicine Medicine Enterovirus 030212 general & internal medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Communicable Diseases Intelligence. 44 |
| ISSN: | 2209-6051 |
| Popis: | Australia monitors its polio-free status by conducting surveillance for cases of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) in children less than 15 years of age, as recommended by the World Health Organization. Cases of AFP in children are notified to the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit or the Paediatric Active Enhanced Disease Surveillance System and faecal specimens are referred for virological investigation to the National Enterovirus Reference Laboratory. In 2019, no cases of poliomyelitis were reported from clinical surveillance and Australia reported 1.34 non-polio AFP cases per 100,000 children, meeting the World Health Organization’s performance criterion for a sensitive surveillance system. The non-polio enteroviruses coxsackievirus A2, coxsackievirus A16, echovirus 9, and enterovirus A71 were identified from clinical specimens collected from AFP cases. Australia also performs enterovirus and environmental surveillance to complement the clinical system focussed on children. In 2019, 175 cases of wild polio were reported, with three countries remaining endemic: Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. |
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