Publications

environmental surveillance system to track wild poliovirus transmission.	eradication of poliomyelitis from large metropolis cities in india has been difficult due to high population density and the presence of large urban slums. three paralytic poliomyelitis cases were reported in mumbai, india, in 1999 and 2000 in spite of high immunization coverage and good-quality supplementary immunization activities. we therefore established a systematic environmental surveillance study by weekly screening of sewage samples from three high-risk slum areas to detect the silent tr ...	2003	12732567
prevalence of antibodies to polioviruses & enteroviruses excreted by healthy children in bombay.	a total of 132 healthy children between the ages one month and 12 yr were surveyed to determine the prevalence of antibodies to the three poliovirus serotypes. among infants up to six months of age, 73.2, 85.4 and 56.1 per cent had antibodies to poliovirus types 1, 2 and 3, respectively. in children of age groups 7 months to 3 yr and above 3 yr, antibody prevalence to the three poliovirus serotypes was 90.2, 86.9 and 57.4, and 83.3, 96.7 and 76.7 per cent, respectively. immunization coverage wit ...	1995	7729847