| [results of active surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis in the central african republic and chad from 1995 to 2000]. | the threefold purpose of this report is to describe the epidemiology of acute flaccid paralysis (afp), to determine the impact of the national immunization days (nid), and evaluate the quality of active surveillance in the central african republic (car) and chad. the data in this study was obtained from the enterovirus division of the pastear institute in bangui (national who inter-country reference laboratory for the car and chad and regional poliovirus reference laboratory in africa). an incre ... | 2002 | 12038182 |
| the molecular epidemiology of type 1 poliovirus in central african republic. | an increase in the incidence of acute flaccid paralysis cases associated with wild-type 1 poliovirus occurred in children in the city of bangui, central african republic (car), in 1993 and 1994. genetic relationships of 33 isolates were analysed by restriction fragment length polymorphism and by sequencing the vp1/2a junction region (150 nucleotides) of the viral genome. two distinct genotypes, a and b, were co-circulating in 1993, while in 1994 only a third genotype, c, was observed. comparison ... | 1997 | 9049410 |