African Journal of
Biotechnology

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Biotechnol.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1684-5315
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJB
  • Start Year: 2002
  • Published Articles: 12488

Full Length Research Paper

Some genetic characteristics of sabin-like poliovirus isolated from acute flaccid paralysis cases in Nigeria

Festus Doyin Adu1*, Jane Iber2, Tekena Harry3, Cara Burns2, Oluseyi Oyedele1, Johnson Adekunle Adeniji 1, Mubarak Ossei-Kwasi 4 David Kilpatrick2 Oyewale Tomori5 and Olen Kew2
  1Department of Virology, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. 2Division of Molecular Virology, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta Georgia, USA. 3Dept of Immunology, University of Maiduguri  Teaching Hospital, Maiduguri, Nigeria. 4Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research Legon Ghana. 5WHO Regional Office Harare Zimbabwe
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  •  Accepted: 30 October 2003
  •  Published: 30 November 2003