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Impact of polio vaccines (oral polio vaccine - OPV or inactivated polio vaccine - IPV) on rotavirus vaccine-associated intussusception [PDF]

open access: yesHuman 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   +6 more
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Reduced mucosal immunity to poliovirus after cessation of trivalent oral polio vaccine [PDF]

open access: yesHuman 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   +10 more
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Endgame Polio: Role of Novel Oral Polio Vaccine Type 2 [PDF]

open access: yesPediatric Infectious Disease, 2022
Polio eradication efforts have seen major advances since 1988 when the thrust for eradication was initiated on a global level. The endgame polio strategy, as announced by the World Health Organization (WHO), is a program from 2019 to 2023 that attempts ...
Sumitha Nayak
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Polio inactivated vaccine costs into routine childhood immunization in Brazil [PDF]

open access: yesRevista 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   +4 more
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Poliomyelitis amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa: Efforts, challenges and recommendations

open access: yesClinical 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   +7 more
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War on Disease

open access: yesHistoria.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

open access: yesJournal 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   +3 more
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The Pathology of Poliomyelitis and the Vaccines and Nonvaccine Therapy [PDF]

open access: yesE3S 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
doaj   +1 more source

Lessons from Vaccine-Related Poliovirus in Israel, UK and USA

open access: yesVaccines, 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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Preventive Vaccination against Poliomyelitis: Modern View

open access: yesБиопрепараты: 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   +3 more
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