Polio Stool Sample Collection

All afp cases under 15 years of age or with paralytic illness at an age where polio is suspected should be reported immediately and investigated within 48 hours and two stool specimens should be collected 24 48 hours apart and within 14 days of the onset of paralysis.

Polio stool sample collection.

To store until ready to return your sample. Stool sampling stool samples were collected from randomly selected children aged 3 years attending the neighbourhood polyclinics either for a well child visit or injury. Surveillance is one of the main pillars of the polio eradication initiative. Staff and stool samples taken for virological analysis.

Additional testing protocols are being developed to look for afm biomarkers and studies to identify possible mechanisms for afm are underway. New polio cases need a timely response and this needs a system that can detect investigate and confirm suspected cases of. Polio eradication could never rely on routine health information systems alone. Cdc will conduct routine testing and typing of csf respiratory specimens and stool for enterovirus rhinovirus and poliovirus testing of stool specimens to rule out the presence of poliovirus.

By testing stool samples collected from children suffering acute flaccid paralysis the clearest symptom of the virus as well as samples taken from sewage water we are able to find the poliovirus wherever it is hiding. The system did not depend on the hospital s passive. This age criterion captured children targeted for vaccination in the second round of the mass campaign.