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GLOSSARY

AFP
  Acute Flaccid Paralysis
 
CIF
  Case Investigation Form
 
CPE
  Cytopathic Effect
 
CSF
  Cerebrospinal Fluid
 
CSSM
  Child Survival and Safe Motherhood
 
DIO
  District Immunization Officer
 
DTR
  Deep Tendon Reflexes
 
EMG
  Electromyography
 
EPI
  Expanded Programme on Immunization
 
GBS
  Guillain-Barré Syndrome
 
GoI
  Government of India
 
H-t-H
  House to House
 
IPPI
  Intensified Pulse Polio Immunization
 
IPV
  Inactivated Polio Vaccine
 
ITD
  Intratypic Differentiation
 
LRF
  Lab Request Form
 
MOH&FW
  Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
 
NCV
  Nerve Conduction Velocity
 
NID
  National Immunization Day
 
NPEV
  Non-polio Enterovirus
 
NPSP
  National Polio Surveillance Project
 
NPSU
  National Polio Surveillance Unit
 
OPV
  Oral Polio Vaccine
 
ORI
  Outbreak Response Immunization
 
PPI
  Pulse Polio Immunization
 
RU
  Reporting Unit
 
SEARO
  South East Asia's Regional Office
 
SIA
  Supplemental Immunization Activities
 
SEPIO
  State EPI Officer
 
SMO
  Surveillance Medical Officer
 
SNID
  Sub-national Immunization Day
 
TCG
  Technical Consultative Group
 
TM
  Transverse Myelitis
 
UIP
  Universal Immunization Programme
 
VAPP
  Vaccine Associated Paralytic Poliomyelitis
 
WBC
  White Blood Cells
 
WHO
  World Health Organization
   
 
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