A Sri Lankan infant with vaccine associated acute flaccid paralysis
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A Sri Lankan infant with vaccine associated acute flaccid paralysis.
Global incidence of poliomyelitis has reduced by more than 99% since the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched in 1988 [1]. In par with the global trend, Sri Lanka has achieved great success with no reported cases since 1993, but still is not declared as a country which has eradicated polio due to prevalence of polioyomyelitis in neighbouring countries [2]. Countries which have eradi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ceylon Medical Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2386-1274,0009-0875
DOI: 10.4038/cmj.v57i1.4201