Publications

poliomyelitis case confirmation: characteristics for use by national eradication programmes.	highly sensitive case definitions were first introduced by national poliomyelitis eradication programmes to avoid missing true cases of the disease, though false-positive diagnostic errors could still occur owing to low specificity. extensive data from all 1620 cases of acute, flaccid paralysis reported in brazil during 1987-88 provided an opportunity to study the characteristics of confirmed poliomyelitis cases and epidemiologically to evaluate potential case definitions that maximized both sen ...	1992	1314710
antibody titre and avidity in saliva and serum are not impaired in mildly to moderately undernourished children.	avidities and titres of serum iga, igm, igg, and salivary iga antibodies for poliovirus type 3, beta-lactoglobulin and e. coli o antigens were analysed in well-nourished (n=58) and mildly to moderately undernourished (n = 18) 1-7-year-old children, living in slums in são paulo, brazil, with irregular water supply and no sewage system. the serum titres of antibodies in the undernourished children were not statistically different from the well-nourished ones, except for the iga anti-beta-lactoglob ...	1995	7636934