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Reduced mucosal immunity to poliovirus after cessation of trivalent oral polio vaccine [PDF]

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2021
The switch from using only trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV) to sequential schedules combining inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) and bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) for polio vaccination will cause changes to mucosal immunity against polio in ...
Ting Zhao, Jing Li, Hongyuan Shi, Hui Ye, Rufei Ma, Yuting Fu, Xiaochang Liu, Guoliang Li, Xiaolei Yang, Zhimei Zhao, Jingsi Yang   +10 more
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Impact of polio vaccines (oral polio vaccine - OPV or inactivated polio vaccine - IPV) on rotavirus vaccine-associated intussusception [PDF]

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022
Although safe, rotavirus vaccines have been associated with increased intussusception risk. In Brazil, after the oral human rotavirus vaccine (OHRV) introduction in the childhood immunization, in 2006, increased intussusception risk was identified after ...
Camila Cristina Martini Rodrigues, Eder Gatti Fernandes, Paulo Piva dos Santos, Renato Yoshio Eguti, Antonio Carlos Pedroso-de-Lima, Gisela Tunes da Silva, Ana Marli Christovam Sartori   +6 more
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Acute Transverse Myelitis in a Child Following Oral Live Polio Vaccine Administration

International Medical Case Reports Journal
Sergiy Kramarov,1 Liudmyla Palatna,1 Iryna Shpak,1 Iryna Seriakova,1 Liudmyla Zakordonets,2 Liudmyla Verbova,3 Oleksandr Molodetskyi,3 Liudmyla Myroniak,4 Tatiana Isayenko5 1Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Bogomolets National Medical ...
Kramarov S, Palatna L, Shpak I, Seriakova I, Zakordonets L, Verbova L, Molodetskyi O, Myroniak L, Isayenko T   +8 more
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Poliomyelitis amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa: Efforts, challenges and recommendations

Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 2022
Poliomyelitis is the leading infectious cause of acute flaccid paralysis among children under five years of age, caused by the Wild Poliovirus, with no medical cure other than prevention through vaccination.
Olivier Uwishema, Emmanuel Ebuka Elebesunu, Oumnia Bouaddi, Arushi Kapoor, Samaa Akhtar, Fortune Benjamin Effiong, Adhiraj Chaudhary, Helen Onyeaka   +7 more
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War on Disease

Historia.scribere, 2023
This paper investigates how widespread acceptance of the polio vaccination was generated in the United States. It shows that FDR transformed the struggle against polio into a national endeavor and that the fear of polio contributed to the widespread ...
Jonas Zimmermann
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Polio Supplementary Immunization Activities During COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience from Penampang District, Sabah, Malaysia

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2021
Background: Polio Supplementary Immunization Activities (SIAs) were carried out in the State of Sabah in response to the Vaccine Derived Poliovirus outbreak declared in December 2019.
Sam Froze Jiee, Melvin Ebin Bondi, Muhammad Ezmeer Emiral, Anisah Jantim   +3 more
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The Pathology of Poliomyelitis and the Vaccines and Nonvaccine Therapy [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2021
Poliomyelitis is an exclusively human disease that mainly affects children. Clinical features of poliomyelitis can be varied, from mild illness to the most severe paralysis, and the factor why poliomyelitis has different performances in individuals has ...
Chen Yushuo, Yue Tianrui, Zhang Zixiao
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Lessons from Vaccine-Related Poliovirus in Israel, UK and USA

Vaccines, 2022
Genetic variants of vaccine poliovirus type 2, imported from an unknown source, were detected in waste waters in Jerusalem, London and New York in early 2022.
T. Jacob John, Dhanya Dharmapalan
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Polio inactivated vaccine costs into routine childhood immunization in Brazil

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2015
OBJECTIVE To analyze the costs of vaccination regimens for introducing inactivated polio vaccine in routine immunization in Brazil. METHODS A cost analysis was conducted for vaccines in five vaccination regimens, including inactivated polio vaccine ...
Ana Marli Christovam Sartori, Margarete Paganotti Vicentine, Lígia Castelloni Figueiredo Gryninger, Patricia Coelho de Soárez, Hillegonda Maria Dutilh Novaes   +4 more
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Preventive Vaccination against Poliomyelitis: Modern View

Биопрепараты: Профилактика, диагностика, лечение, 2018
Poliomyelitis is a typical anthroponosis, in natural conditions it infects only humans. The only effective strategy for combating the infection is preventive vaccination. The polio vaccine induces long-lasting humoral and local immunity.
E. V. Karpova, К. А. Sarkisyan, A. A. Movsesyants, V. A. Merkulov   +3 more
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