[Strain-specific antibodies to wild poliomyelitis viruses as an index of the circulation of these viruses in a surveyed territory].

In response to vaccination or infection with wild poliovirus, some children can finely differentiate the virus structure and respond by forming strain-specific antibodies. The analysis of strain-specific antibodies indicates that in epidemically unfavorable regions strain-specific antibodies to wild poliovirus strains may prevail over those to vaccine poliovirus strains in children or occur with equal frequency. In epidemically favourable regions strain-specific antibodies to vaccine poliovirus strain significantly prevail in children or may be absent at all. The analysis of strain-specific antibodies makes it possible to retrospectively judge on the circulation of wild viruses in the surveyed region.