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    Enterovirus surveillance of Italian healthy children

    Surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) is the golden strategy recommended by the WHO to verify the condition of polio eradication in a country. Because of the difficulty to detect all of the expected AF...

    A.M. Patti, A.L. Santi, L. Fiore, L. Vellucci in European Journal of Epidemiology (2000)

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    Surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis in Italy: 1996–1997

    The last case of poliomyelitis due to transmission of indigenous wild poliovirus occurred in Italy in 1982. To achieve the certification of the eradication of poliomyelitis in Italy, an active surveillance of ...

    L. Fiore, F. Novello, P. Simeoni, C. Amato, L. Vellucci in European Journal of Epidemiology (1999)

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    Characterization by T1-oligonucleotide fingerprinting of three strains of human hepatitis A virus isolated in Italy

    Three human hepatitis A virus strains, all of them isolated in Italy but one acquired abroad, were analyzed by T1 - RNAase oligonucleotide map** and by monoclonal antibody neutralization. The variation among th...

    L. Fiore, E. de Paolis, F. Novello, M. Divizia, A. Panà in European Journal of Epidemiology (1990)

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    Paralytic poliomyelitis in Italy (1981–85)

    Fifteen cases of presumptive poliomyelitis occurring in Italy between 1981–85 were studied in order to differentiate between paralysis caused by poliovirus and that of different etiology. Out of seven confirme...

    F. Novello, F. Lombardi, C. Amato, R. Santoro, L. Fiore in European Journal of Epidemiology (1987)