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Rare adverse events associated with oral poliovirus vaccine in Brazil

open access: greenBrazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 1997
Oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) developed by A. Sabin has been effectively used to control poliomyelitis in Brazil, and the last case with the isolation of a wild poliovirus strain occurred in March 1989.
Friedrich F.
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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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Reduced mucosal immunity to poliovirus after cessation of trivalent oral polio vaccine

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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Case report: Clearance of longstanding, immune-deficiency-associated, vaccine-derived polio virus infection following remdesivir therapy for chronic SARS-CoV-2 infection

open access: yesFrontiers in Immunology, 2023
The global polio eradication campaign has had remarkable success in reducing wild-type poliovirus infection, largely built upon the live attenuated Sabin oral poliovirus vaccine.
William Hywel Bermingham   +8 more
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Importation and Circulation of Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Serotype 2, Senegal, 2020–2021

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2022
Environmental surveillance for poliovirus is increasingly used in poliovirus eradication efforts as a supplement to acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance. Environmental surveillance was officially established in 2017 in Senegal, where no poliovirus
Martin Faye   +13 more
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Deconvolving mutational patterns of poliovirus outbreaks reveals its intrinsic fitness landscape. [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +3 more
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