| isolation of poliovirus from cases of poliomyelitis in rio de janeiro, in 1975. | | 2006 | 225773 |
| tenth technical advisory group (tag) meeting on vaccine-preventable diseases. | in march 1992, participants met in rio de janeiro, brazil for the 10th meeting of the paho technical advisory group (tag) on vaccine-preventable diseases. immunization coverage for all vaccines exceeded 75%. in 1991, only 9 confirmed cases of wild poliovirus occurred out of 4000 stool specimens examined. these cases were in colombia and peru. many national immunization days and mop-up operations complement routine immunization services and have contributed greatly to interruption of the wild pol ... | 1992 | 12285738 |
| environmental surveillance of polioviruses in rio de janeiro, brazil, in support to the activities of global polio eradication initiative. | wild polioviruses still remain endemic in three countries (afghanistan, pakistan, and nigeria) and re-emergency of wild polio has been reported in previously polio-free countries. environmental surveillance has been used as a supplementary tool in monitoring the circulation of wild poliovirus (pvs) and/or vaccine-derived pvs even in the absence of acute flaccid paralysis cases. this study aimed to monitor the presence of polioviruses in wastewater samples collected at one wastewater treatment pl ... | 2016 | 26538420 |
| acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis and coxsackievirus a24v, rio de janeiro, brazil, 2004. | an outbreak of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis (ahc) occurred in rio de janeiro in 2004. coxsackievirus a24v (ca24v) was identified as the etiologic agent, and partial sequences from the vp1 gene show that the isolates are closely related to ca24v viruses that previously caused ahc epidemics in south korea and french guiana. | 2006 | 16704792 |
| brazil's response to the polio outbreak in angola. | the brazilian government responded to the poliomyelitis outbreak in angola by organizing a team tasked at implementing measures that would avoid the risk of importation of wild poliovirus to their country. this team is comprised of representatives from the national health foundation of the ministry of health and a staff from the pan american health organization. the team enhanced the surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis (afp) in hospitals of cities that were most likely to have visitor ... | 1999 | 12349261 |
| enteroviruses isolated from patients with acute respiratory infections during seven years in rio de janeiro (1985-1991). | enteroviruses were investigated in respiratory secretions collected from patients with acute respiratory infections (ari) over a seven year period (1985-1991), as part of a longitudinal study of ari aetiology. all the viruses that are most commonly associated with ari were found in this study. among the virus isolates, enteroviruses were only less frequent than respiratory syncytial viruses, adenoviruses and influenzaviruses. forty five enterovirus samples were isolated from patients with either ... | 1998 | 10436652 |