Poliovirus Type 2 (24E2) Antibody

Polio (acute poliomyelitis, infantile paralysis) is caused by a virus, which may infect the nervous system and cause lasting paralysis. Poliovirus is a single-stranded RNA virus and a menber of the Picornavirus family. There are three seperate types of the virus: type 1, type 2, type 3. There is no crossreactivity with type 1 and 3.