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Do Childhood Vaccines Have Non-Specific Effects on Mortality [PDF]

, 2003
A recent article by Kristensen et al. suggested that measles vaccine and bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine might\ud reduce mortality beyond what is expected simply from protection against measles and tuberculosis.
Boyce , G. Thomas, Cooper, O. William, Griffin, R. Martin, Wright, F. Peter   +3 more
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Poliovirus vaccination during the endgame: insights from integrated modeling

Expert Review of Vaccines, 2017
Introduction: Managing the polio endgame requires access to sufficient quantities of poliovirus vaccines. After oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) cessation, outbreaks may occur that require outbreak response using monovalent OPV (mOPV) and/or inactivated ...
Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens, Kimberly M. Thompson   +1 more
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Epidemics of poliomyelitis in the Maltese island of Gozo : genetic susceptibility [PDF]

, 2014
There were fewer epidemics of polio in Gozo than in the much bigger island of Malta, but over many years the proportion of cases was similar. Within Gozo, the attack rate was greater in some villages and this was caused by some extended, related families
Wyatt, H.V.
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Immunization Update, April 2008, Vol. 1, no. 7 [PDF]

, 2008
Monthly newsletter for the Iowa Department of Public ...

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Certification of the industry reference standard for the specific activity of «BiVac polio» - live attenuated bivalent oral polio vaccine type 1 and 3

Биопрепараты: Профилактика, диагностика, лечение, 2018
The standardization and control of «BiVac polio» (live attenuated bivalent oral polio vaccine type 1 and 3) developed by M. P. Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, called for ...
E. V. Karpova, A. D. Sangadzhieva, T. V. Mamontova, O. V. Fadeykina, R. A. Volkova, K. A. Sarkisyan, A. A. Movsesyants   +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
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Optimal Disease Eradication [PDF]

Using a dynamic model of the control of an infectious disease, we derive the conditions under which eradication will be optimal. When eradication is feasible, the optimal program requires either a low vaccination rate or eradication.
Michael Hoel, Scott Barrett
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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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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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