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Euro Surveill. Highly divergent neurovirulent vaccine-derived polioviruses of all three serotypes are recurrently detected in Finnish sewage
Highly divergent neurovirulent vaccine-derived polioviruses of all three serotypes are recurrently detected in Finnish sewage (Euro Surveill., abstract, edited)
[Source: EuroSurveillance.org, <cite cite="http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19566">Eurosurveillance - View Article</cite>. Abstract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 19, 13 May 2010
Rapid communications
Highly divergent neurovirulent vaccine-derived polioviruses of all three serotypes are recurrently detected in Finnish sewage
M Roivainen 1, Soile Blomqvist 1, Haider al-Hello 1, Anja Paananen 1, Frances Delpeyreux 2, M Kuusi 1, T Hovi 1
1. National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
2. Departement de Virologie, Biologie des Virus Ent?riques, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Citation style for this article: Roivainen M, Blomqvist S, al-Hello H, Paananen A, Delpeyreux F, Kuusi M, Hovi T. Highly divergent neurovirulent vaccine-derived polioviruses of all three serotypes are recurrently detected in Finnish sewage. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(19):pii=19566. Available online: (LINK)
Date of submission: 04 May 2010
In Finland, surveillance of potential re-emergence of poliovirus transmission is mainly based on environmental surveillance, i.e. search for infectious poliovirus in sewage samples. Since December 2008, 21 genetically highly divergent, neurovirulent vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPV) have been isolated from sewage in Tampere, Finland. While the source of the VDPV is unknown, characteristics of the viruses resemble those of strains isolated from immunodeficient, persistently infected persons. No cases of suspected poliomyelitis have been reported in Finland since 1985.
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[Source: EuroSurveillance.org, <cite cite="http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19566">Eurosurveillance - View Article</cite>. Abstract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 19, 13 May 2010
Rapid communications
Highly divergent neurovirulent vaccine-derived polioviruses of all three serotypes are recurrently detected in Finnish sewage
M Roivainen 1, Soile Blomqvist 1, Haider al-Hello 1, Anja Paananen 1, Frances Delpeyreux 2, M Kuusi 1, T Hovi 1
1. National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
2. Departement de Virologie, Biologie des Virus Ent?riques, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Citation style for this article: Roivainen M, Blomqvist S, al-Hello H, Paananen A, Delpeyreux F, Kuusi M, Hovi T. Highly divergent neurovirulent vaccine-derived polioviruses of all three serotypes are recurrently detected in Finnish sewage. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(19):pii=19566. Available online: (LINK)
Date of submission: 04 May 2010
In Finland, surveillance of potential re-emergence of poliovirus transmission is mainly based on environmental surveillance, i.e. search for infectious poliovirus in sewage samples. Since December 2008, 21 genetically highly divergent, neurovirulent vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPV) have been isolated from sewage in Tampere, Finland. While the source of the VDPV is unknown, characteristics of the viruses resemble those of strains isolated from immunodeficient, persistently infected persons. No cases of suspected poliomyelitis have been reported in Finland since 1985.
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