Polio Eradication, Primary Immune Deficiency and Public Health Genomics

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Polio Eradication, Primary Immune Deficiency and Public Health Genomics

• New CDC blog post:  What’s the connection between polio eradication and primary immunodeficiency?  A public health role for human genetics. By Marta Gwinn
• National primary immunodeficiency resource, Jeffrey Modell Foundation 
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH. Primary Immune Deficiency Diseases. 
• CDC article: Nathanson N, Kew OM. From emergence to eradication: the epidemiology of poliomyelitis deconstructed.
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