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An Unusual Case of Vaccine-Associated Paralytic Poliomyelitis

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2014
The present article reports a case involving an immunocompetent, previously well child who, despite two previous doses of inactivated poliovirus vaccine, developed severe flaccid paralysis consistent with polio after receiving oral polio vaccine.
S Desai, T Diener, BJ-K Tan, NJ Lowry, C Talukdar, WM Chrusch, S Wiebe   +6 more
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Education in Oral Polio Vaccine Program [PDF]

Public Health Reports (1896-1970), 1963
IS THE TERM "community organization for health education" one that is understood. and the connotations accepted, by public health personnel as it relates to families with limited education and income? Is it possible for persons with a professional background to accept emotionally as well as intellectually the premise that persons from so-called hard ...
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Community perceptions of a malaria vaccine in the Kintampo districts of Ghana. [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Malaria remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa despite tools currently available for its control. Making malaria vaccine available for routine use will be a major hallmark, but its acceptance by community ...
A Bingham, A Dodoo, A Launiala, A Olotu, AK Rowe, AS Jegede, C Wongsrichanalai, CA Baume, CA de Quadros, Dan-Bright S Dzorgbo, DB Dery, DI Ojakaa, E Klinkenberg, F Nuwaha, FN Binka, G GSS, Kojo A Senah, KP Asante, Kwaku P Asante, Lawrence G Febir, PW Chung, RW Snow, S Owusu-Agyei, S Owusu-Agyei, S Owusu-Agyei, Seth Owusu-Agyei, ST Agnandji, ST Agnandji, TE Nkya, Timothy S Letsa, WHO   +30 more
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Sabin Vaccine in Poliomyelitis Eradication: Achievements and Risks

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 2019
Poliomyelitis eradication using the oral polio vaccine (OPV), also known as the Sabin vaccine, has been a major medical achievement led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and various countries.
Omar A. Nafi, Bashar Ramadan
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Immunodeficiency-associated Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Type 3 in Infant, South Africa, 2011

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012
Patients with primary immunodeficiency are prone to persistently excrete Sabin-like virus after administration of live-attenuated oral polio vaccine and have an increased risk for vaccine-derived paralytic polio.
Nicksy Gumede, Vongani Muthambi, Barry D. Schoub   +2 more
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Poliovirus Excretion in Children with Primary Immunodeficiency Disorders, India

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017
Prolonged excretion of poliovirus can occur in immunodeficient patients who receive oral polio vaccine, which may lead to propagation of highly divergent vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPVs), posing a concern for global polio eradication.
Madhu Chhanda Mohanty, Manisha Rajan Madkaikar, Mukesh Desai, Prasad Taur, Uma Prajwal Nalavade, Deepa Kailash Sharma, Maya Gupta, Aparna Dalvi, Snehal Shabrish, Manasi Kulkarni, Jahnavi Aluri, Jagadish Mohanrao Deshpande   +11 more
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Deconvolving mutational patterns of poliovirus outbreaks reveals its intrinsic fitness landscape. [PDF]

, 2020
Vaccination has essentially eradicated poliovirus. Yet, its mutation rate is higher than that of viruses like HIV, for which no effective vaccine exists.
Barton, John P, Chakraborty, Arup K, McKay, Matthew R, Quadeer, Ahmed A   +3 more
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Maternal education, empowerment, economic status and child polio vaccination uptake in Pakistan: a population based cross sectional study [PDF]

, 2017
Objectives: To explore the association of maternal education and empowerment with childhood polio vaccination using nationally representative data of Pakistani mothers in a reproductive age group. Design: Cross-sectional.
Khan, Muhammad Tahir, Shafique, Kashif, Zaheer, Sidra   +2 more
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Oral polio vaccine plus inactivated polio vaccine versus oral polio vaccine alone for reducing polio in children under two years of age

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2013
Reason for withdrawal from publication The Cochrane Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems Editorial Team have withdrawn this protocol as it was published more than three years ago.
Fyezah Jehan, Muhammad I Nisar, Zohra S Lassi, Saad B Omer, Anita KM Zaidi   +4 more
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Neurologic complications in oral polio vaccine recipients [PDF]

The Journal of Pediatrics, 1984
Between April 1982 and June 1983 four children 3 to 24 months of age were referred for evaluation of neurologic abnormalities found to be compatible with vaccine-related poliovirus infection, which had not been suspected by referring physicians. Patients were epidemiologically unrelated residents of Indiana, and none had prior symptoms suggestive of ...
J W, Gaebler, M B, Kleiman, M L, French, G, Chastain, C, Barrett, C, Griffin   +5 more
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