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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