Finding inhabited settlements and tracking vaccination progress: the application of satellite imagery analysis to guide the immunization response to confirmation of previously-undetected, ongoing endemic wild poliovirus transmission in Borno State, Nigeria

BACKGROUND: Four wild polio-virus cases were reported in Borno State, Nigeria 2016, 1 year after Nigeria had been removed from the list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organization. Resulting from Nigeria’s decade long conflict with Boko Haram, health officials had been unable to acce...

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Pubblicato in:Int J Health Geogr
Autori principali: Higgins, Jeff, Adamu, Usman, Adewara, Kehinde, Aladeshawe, Adeshina, Aregay, Aron, Barau, Inuwa, Berens, Andrew, Bolu, Omotayo, Dutton, Nina, Iduma, Nnaemeka, Jones, Bryant, Kaplan, Brian, Meleh, Sule, Musa, Melton, wa Nganda, Gatei, Seaman, Vincent, Sud, Anupma, Vouillamoz, Stephane, Wiesen, Eric
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: BioMed Central 2019
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Research
Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6524248/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31096971
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12942-019-0175-y
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