This study will be used to develop a tool to streamline poliovirus environmental surveillance for the polio endgame and to provide a tool for detecting polio in places where there is no capacity to carry out the gold standard culture-based detection.
This environmental surveillance tool will also include antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes to describe resistome profile in environmental samples and to better inform us of the potential risks of exposure to these environments
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
8,500
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) detection of poliovirus, enteric pathogens and antimicrobial resistance genes from environmental samples
Evaluate performance of the TaqMan Array Card (TAC) on environmental samples (sewage samples) collected in urban slum area of Mirpur. The primary purpose will be to use TAC to detect and monitor Sabin 1 and 3 polio viruses post SIA.
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
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