The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, launched in 1988, had as its goal the eradication of polio worldwide by the year 2000 through large-scale vaccinations campaigns with the live attenuated oral PV vaccine (OPV) (Griffiths et al., Biologicals 34:73–74, 2006). Despite substantial progress, polio remains endemic in several countries and new imported cases are reported on a regular basis (http://www.polioeradication. org/casecount.asp). It was recognized by the poliovirus research community that developing antivirals against poliovirus would be invaluable in the post-OPV era. Here, we describe three methods essential for the identification of selective inhibitors of poliovirus replication and for determining their mode of action by time-of-drugaddition studies as well as by the isolation of compound-resistant poliovirus variants.
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Leyssen, P., Franco, D., Tijsma, A., Lacroix, C., de Palma, A., & Neyts, J. (2016). Identification and analysis of antiviral compounds against poliovirus. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1387, pp. 325–338). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3292-4_17
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