Kennett M, Brussen K A, Stambos V, Turnbull A, Ibrahim A, Kelly H
Australian National Polio Reference Laboratory, Melbourne, Victoria.
Commun Dis Intell. 1999 May 13;23(5):124-8. doi: 10.33321/cdi.1999.23.18.
The Australian National Polio Reference Laboratory was established at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL) in late 1994 to carry out virological confirmation of the eradication of poliomyelitis in Australia. The laboratory is responsible for transporting samples from all Australian patients with acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) to VIDRL for poliovirus culture, identification and intratypic differentiation. The laboratory also performs polio serology on selected serum samples from AFP patients when faecal samples are not available. In 1998, faecal specimens were received from 11 patients with AFP. Adenovirus type 2 was isolated from 1 patient and an untypable non-polio enterovirus from another. No viruses were isolated from the other 9 patients. Since 1995, over 820 isolates have been transported to VIDRL from laboratories in five Australian states for testing. Three hundred and seventy three (45%) were confirmed as Sabin vaccine-like polioviruses, 416 (51%) were non-polio enteroviruses and 24 (3%) yielded no virus or viruses other than enteroviruses. Eight polioviruses are still uncharacterised.
澳大利亚国家脊髓灰质炎参考实验室于1994年末在维多利亚传染病参考实验室（VIDRL）成立，以对澳大利亚脊髓灰质炎的根除进行病毒学确认。该实验室负责将澳大利亚所有急性弛缓性麻痹（AFP）患者的样本运送到VIDRL进行脊髓灰质炎病毒培养、鉴定和型内鉴别。当无法获得粪便样本时，该实验室还对AFP患者的选定血清样本进行脊髓灰质炎血清学检测。1998年，收到了11例AFP患者的粪便标本。从1例患者中分离出2型腺病毒，从另1例患者中分离出1株无法分型的非脊髓灰质炎肠道病毒。其他9例患者未分离出病毒。自1995年以来，超过820株分离株已从澳大利亚五个州的实验室运送到VIDRL进行检测。其中373株（45%）被确认为类似萨宾疫苗的脊髓灰质炎病毒，416株（51%）为非脊髓灰质炎肠道病毒，24株（3%）未分离出病毒或分离出除肠道病毒以外的其他病毒。仍有8株脊髓灰质炎病毒未鉴定。
