Thanks to Robert F. Boyd, PhD, and Virginia Wirtz, authors of General Microbiology Times Mirror/Mosby College Publishing, 1984
Disease Polio
Responsible pathogen poliovirus
Route of exposure gastro-intestinal
Mode of transmission untreated sewage; may also be waterborne; vaccines are effective


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