Nature Immunology 3, 205 - 208 (2002) DOI:10.1038/ni0302-205 Published online: 01 March 2002 © Nature America, Inc.

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Eradication of Poliomyelitis

Akio Nomoto & Isao Arita

¹ Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. anomoto@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
² Agency for Cooperation in International Health, 4-11-1 Higashi-machi, Kumamoto City, Kumamoto 862-0901, Japan.

One of the major goals of the WHO is elimination of polio, but the nature of rapidly evolving enteroviruses makes this task more complex than it initially appears.

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