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The social and economic impact of parental HIV on children in northern Malawi: retrospective population-based cohort study

, 2007
From population-based surveys in the 1980s in Karonga district, northern Malawi, 197 'index individuals' were identified as HIV-positive. 396 HIV-negative 'index individuals' were selected as a comparison group.
Zaba, B, Fine, P.E.M., Glynn, J.R., Crampin, A.C., Fine, P.E.M, Madise, N, Zaba, B., Mwenebabu, M., Mwenebabu, M, Ngwira, B, Ngwira, B., Glynn, J., Mnkhondia, S., Mkhondia, S., Glynn, JR, Madise, N., Crampin, AC, Floyd, S., Mnkhondia, S, Fine, PEM, Floyd, S   +20 more
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Poliomyelitis outbreak investigation in Kayanza Health District, Burundi, 2023

Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health
Introduction: In recent years Africa has been facing epidemics linked to poliovirus derived from the vaccine strain with a predominance of type 2. This situation does not spare Burundi.
Munekayi Padingani, Ezéchiel Nimbona, Bernadin Nyabenda, Doris Nindagira, Grace Mbila, Désiré Nolna, Joseph Nyandwi   +6 more
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Deployment of novel oral polio vaccine type 2 under emergency use listing in Nigeria: the rollout experience. [PDF]

Pan Afr Med J, 2023
Asekun A, Nkwogu L, Bawa S, Usman S, Edukugho A, Ocheh J, Banda R, Nganda GW, Nsubuga P, Archer R, Nebechukwu T, Mohammed A, Shuaib F, Bolu O, Adamu U.   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Polio eradication in Ghana: past, present, and future

Frontiers in Tropical Diseases
IntroductionGhana joined the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in 1996 to interrupt wild poliovirus transmission in the country. This was a collaborative effort by the Ghana Health Service (Disease Surveillance Department and the Expanded Program on ...
John Kofi Odoom, Dennis Odai Laryea, Nana Afia Asante Ntim, Keren Attiku, Michael Adjabeng, Ewurabena Oduma Duker, Comfort Nuamah Antwi, Emmanuel Gberbi, Isaac Baffoe-Nyarko, Patience Lartekai Adams, Angelina Evelyn Dickson, Jessica Dufie Boakye, Jude Yayra Mensah, Christabel Odoom, Sharon Ansong Bimpong, Deborah Odame, Gayheart Deladem Agboste, Nancy Odoom, Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe, Evangeline Obodai   +19 more
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Surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria 2004-2009

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2011
INTRODUCTION: The last case of wild polio virus transmission occurred in Akwa Ibom state in October 2001; however, combination high routine immunization coverage with OPV, high quality AFP surveillance, mass immunization campaign in which two doses of ...
Bassey Enya Bassey, Alex Gasasira, Pamela Mitula, Umoh Utobong Frankson, Johnson Adekunle Adeniji   +4 more
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Promotion of oral fluid methods for evaluation and surveillance of the measles immunization programme in Ethiopia [PDF]

This work aims to demonstrate the use of oral-fluid methods in evaluating the effectiveness of a vaccination programme at the individual (vaccine conversion) and population levels (herd immunity and virus transmission and origin) within a developing ...
Nigatu, Wondatir
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Guillain-Barre Syndrome and Oral Polio Virus Vaccine

, 1989
An unexpected rise in the number of patients hospitalized with Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) was concomitant with a nationwide oral polio virus vaccine (OPV) campaign in Finland in 1985 and is reported from Clinical Neurosciences Institute of ...
J Gordon Millichap
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Antiviral Development for the Polio Endgame: Current Progress and Future Directions

Pathogens
As the world is approaching the eradication of wild poliovirus serotype 1, the last of the three wild types, the question of how to maintain a polio-free world becomes imminent.
Hang Xie, Eric E. Rhoden, Hong-Mei Liu, Folake Ogunsemowo, Bernardo A. Mainou, Rachel M. Burke, Cara C. Burns   +6 more
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Improvement of the qmosRT-PCR Assay and Its Application for the Detection and Quantitation of the Three Serotypes of the Novel Oral Polio Vaccine in Stool Samples. [PDF]

Vaccines (Basel), 2023
Manukyan H, Tritama E, Wahid R, Anstadt J, Konz J, Chumakov K, Laassri M.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Detection of vaccine-derived poliovirus type-3 in sewage of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Clinical Infection in Practice
Enteroviruses include polioviruses, which are classified into three types: type 1, type 2, and type 3. The oral polio vaccine (OPV), which contains attenuated strains of these three types, has been pivotal in reducing polio incidence worldwide.
Rachana Mehta, Amrendra Kushwaha, Sanjit Sah, Jack Feehan, Vasso Apostolopoulos   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source