Publications

intensified environmental surveillance supporting the response to wild poliovirus type 1 silent circulation in israel, 2013.	an emergency response was triggered by recovery of wild poliovirus type 1 (wpv1) of the south asia (soas) lineage from sewage in southern israel in april 2013 during routine environmental surveillance. public health risk assessment necessitated intensification of environmental surveillance in order to facilitate countrywide monitoring of wpv1-soas circulation. this involved increasing sampling frequency and broadening the geographical area, for better coverage of the population at risk, as well ...	2014	24576473
molecular epidemiology of silent introduction and sustained transmission of wild poliovirus type 1, israel, 2013.	poliovirus vaccine coverage in israel is over 90%. the last nine birth cohorts have been vaccinated exclusively with inactivated polio vaccine (ipv). however, between february and july 2013 type 1 wild poliovirus (wpv1) was detected persistently in 10 and intermittently in 8 of 47 environmental surveillance sites in southern and central israel and in 30 stool samples collected during july from healthy individuals in southern israel. we report results of sequence and phylogenetic analyses of gene ...	2014	24576471