Australian National Enterovirus Reference Laboratory annual report, 2017
| Autor: | Linda K Hobday, Aishah Ibrahim, Jason A. Roberts, Bruce R Thorley |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty Echovirus Adolescent Annual Reports as Topic Reference laboratory Coxsackievirus World Health Organization medicine.disease_cause 01 natural sciences Feces 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Enterovirus Infections medicine Humans Public Health Surveillance 030212 general & internal medicine 0101 mathematics Child Disease Notification Enterovirus Paraplegia Disease surveillance biology business.industry Poliovirus 010102 general mathematics Australia Infant virus diseases General Medicine medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Poliomyelitis Vaccination Child Preschool 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 (WHO). 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 2017, no cases of poliomyelitis were reported from clinical surveillance and Australia reported 1.33 non-polio AFP cases per 100,000 children, meeting the WHO performance criterion for a sensitive surveillance system. Three non-polio enteroviruses, coxsackievirus B1, echovirus 11 and enterovirus A71, were identified from clinical specimens collected from AFP cases. Australia established enterovirus and environmental surveillance systems to complement the clinical system focussed on children and an ambiguous vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 was isolated from sewage in Melbourne. In 2017, 22 cases of wild polio were reported with three countries remaining endemic: Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. |
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