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N. Gumede
Researcher at National Institute of Communicable Diseases
Publications - 1
Citations - 144
N. Gumede is an academic researcher from National Institute of Communicable Diseases. The author has contributed to research in topics: Outbreak & Poliovirus. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 127 citations.
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Multiple Independent Emergences of Type 2 Vaccine-Derived Polioviruses during a Large Outbreak in northern Nigeria
Cara C. Burns,Jing Shaw,Jaume Jorba,David Bukbuk,F.D. Adu,N. Gumede,Muhammed A. Pate,Emmanuel Abanida,Alex Gasasira,Jane Iber,Qi Chen,Annelet Vincent,Paul Chenoweth,Elizabeth Henderson,Kathleen Wannemuehler,Asif Naeem,Rifqiyah Nur Umami,Yorihiro Nishimura,Hiroyuki Shimizu,Marycelin Baba,Adekunle J. Adeniji,A. J. Williams,David R. Kilpatrick,M. S. Oberste,Steve Wassilak,Oyewale Tomori,Mark A. Pallansch,Olen M. Kew +27 more
TL;DR: It is estimated from the poliomyelitis case count and the paralytic case-to-infection ratio for type 2 wild poliovirus infections that ∼700,000 cVDPV2 infections have occurred during the outbreak.