Poliovirus

1. An Introduction to Poliovirus: Pathogenesis, Vaccination and the Endgame for Global Eradication

Philip D Minor

2. Poliovirus Laboratory Based Surveillance: An Overview

Syed Sohail Zahoor Zaidi, Humayun Asghar, Salmaan Sharif, and Muhammad Masroor Alam

3. Isolation and Characterisation of Enteroviruses from Clinical Samples

Soile Blomqvist and Merja Roivainen

4. Isolation and Characterisation of Poliovirus in Cell Culture Systems

Bruce R. Thorley and Jason A. Roberts

5. Molecular Characterization of Polio from Environmental Samples - ISSP, The Israeli Sewage Surveillance Protocol

Lester M. Shulman, Yossi Manor, Musa Hindiyeh, Danit Sofer, and Ella Mendelson

6. Quality Assurance in the Polio Laboratory. Cell Sensitivity and Cell Authentication Assays

Glynis Dunn

7. A Transgenic Mouse Model of Poliomyelitis

Satoshi Koike and Noriyo Nagata

8. Standardized Methods for Detection of Poliovirus Antibodies

William C. Weldon, M. Steven Oberste, and Mark A. Pallansch

9. Molecular Properties of Poliovirus Isolates: Nucleotide Sequence Analysis,

Typing by PCR and Real-time RT-PCR

Cara C. Burns, David R. Kilpatrick, Jane C. Iber, Qi Chen, and Olen M. Kew

10. Isolation and Characterization of Vaccine-Derived Polioviruses, Relevance for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative

Wenbo Xu and Yong Zhang

11. Phylogenetic Analysis of Poliovirus Sequences

Jaume Jorba

12. Generation of Infectious Poliovirus with Altered Genetic Information from Cloned cDNA

Erika Bujaki

13. A Rapid Method for Engineering Recombinant Polioviruses or Other Enteroviruses

Maël Bessaud, Isabelle Pelletier, Bruno Blondel, and Francis Delpeyroux

14. Methods to Monitor Molecular Consistency of Oral Polio Vaccine

Konstantin Chumakov

15. Methods for the Quality Control of Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccines

Thomas Wilton

16. Measuring Poliovirus Antigenicity by Surface Plasmon Resonance. Application for Potency Indicating