Erratum to: Modeling the spread of polio in an IPV-vaccinated population: lessons learned from the 2013 silent outbreak in southern Israel
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Author details Bio-statistical Unit, The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer 52621, Israel. Biomathematics Unit, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel. Public Health Services, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel. Faculty for Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. Department of Mathematics, ORT Braude College, Karmiel, Israel. Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel. School of Public Health, the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. Public Health England Immunisation, Hepatitis and Blood Safety Department, 61, Colindale Avenue, London, UK.
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Modeling the spread of polio in an IPV-vaccinated population: lessons learned from the 2013 silent outbreak in southern Israel
BACKGROUND Polio eradication is an extraordinary globally coordinated health program in terms of its magnitude and reach, leading to the elimination of wild poliovirus (WPV) in most parts of the world. In 2013, a silent outbreak of WPV was detected in Israel, a country using an inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) exclusively since 2005. The outbreak was detected using environmental surveillance (ES...
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