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The Polio Model. Does it apply to polio? [PDF]

International Journal of Epidemiology, 2002
According to the polio model, severity of disease increases with age at infection. Firstborn children and people belonging to small families are generally infected later and should accordingly have a higher risk of severe polio. However, this model does contradict other explanations of severity of childhood infections including the intensive-exposure ...
Nielsen, Nete Munk, Aaby, Peter, Wohlfahrt, Jan, Moølbak, Kåre, Melbye, Mads   +4 more
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Protecting investments in polio eradication: the past, present and future of surveillance for acute flaccid paralysis. [PDF]

, 2004
In September 2003 a WHO consultation group on vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPV) concluded that in order to prevent future generations of paralytic polio after interruption of transmission of wild poliovirus, the use of trivalent oral polio vaccine (OPV)
D. L. HEYMANN, E. M. DE GOURVILLE, Heymann, DL, R. B. AYLWARD, Aylward, RB, De Gourville, EM   +5 more
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Genetic characterization and molecular evolution of type 3 vaccine-derived polioviruses from an immunodeficient patient in China

Virus Research, 2023
Summary: In 2013, a case of immunodeficiency vaccine-derived poliovirus (iVDPV) was identified in Jiangxi Province, China. In this study, we purified 14 type 3 original viral isolates from this case and characterized the molecular evolution of these ...
Qin Guo, Shuangli Zhu, Dongyan Wang, Xiaolei Li, Hui Zhu, Yang Song, Xiaoqing Liu, Fang Xiao, Hehe Zhao, Huanhuan Lu, Jinbo Xiao, Liheng Yu, Wenhui Wang, Yun He, Ying Liu, Jichen Li, Yong Zhang, Wenbo Xu, Dongmei Yan   +18 more
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Spatial model for risk prediction and sub-national prioritization to aid poliovirus eradication in Pakistan

BMC Medicine, 2017
Background Pakistan is one of only three countries where poliovirus circulation remains endemic. For the Pakistan Polio Eradication Program, identifying high risk districts is essential to target interventions and allocate limited resources.
Laina D. Mercer, Rana M. Safdar, Jamal Ahmed, Abdirahman Mahamud, M. Muzaffar Khan, Sue Gerber, Aiden O’Leary, Mike Ryan, Frank Salet, Steve J. Kroiss, Hil Lyons, Alexander Upfill-Brown, Guillaume Chabot-Couture   +12 more
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Post-polio syndrome – polio’s legacy

Clinical Medicine, 2010
One of the first descriptions of late-onset muscle weakness following poliomyelitis was made in 1875 by Raymond, who presented a 19-year-old man to Charcot. The patient had residual paresis of his left arm and leg from infantile paralysis at the age of 6 months.
Bridgens, Ruth, Sturman, Steve, Davidson, Craig   +2 more
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Eradicating polio [PDF]

Science, 2015
On 20 September 2015, the Global Commission for the Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication (GCC) declared that type 2 wild poliovirus had been eradicated. The GCC examined reports from 189 of 195 countries around the world and studied separate data [held by the World Health Organization (WHO)] from the remaining countries.
Anthony, Adams, David M, Salisbury
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Comparison of Micro-Census Results for Magarya Ward, Wurno Local Government Area of Sokoto State, Nigeria, with Other Sources of Denominator Data

Data, 2019
Routine immunization coverage in Nigeria is suboptimal. In the northwestern state of Sokoto, an independent population-based survey for 2016 found immunization coverage with the third dose of Pentavalent vaccine to be 3%, whereas administrative coverage ...
Margherita E. Ghiselli, Idongesit Nta Wilson, Brian Kaplan, Ndadilnasiya Endie Waziri, Adamu Sule, Halimatu Bolatito Ayanleke, Faruk Namalam, Shehu Ahmad Tambuwal, Nuruddeen Aliyu, Umar Kadi, Omotayo Bolu, Nyampa Barau, Mohammed Yahaya, Gideon Ugbenyo, Ugochukwu Osigwe, Clara Oguji, Nnamdi Usifoh, Vincent Seaman   +17 more
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Identification of the first C1 subgenotype of enterovirus 71 in the Chinese mainland in a retrospective study

Virology Journal, 2022
The C4 sub-genotype of Enterovirus 71 (EV71) has been identified as the most dominant sub-genotype circulating in the Chinese mainland since 1998. The circulation situation of EV71 before 1998 is not well established due to insufficient experimental data.
Fenfen Si, Dongyan Wang, Tianjiao Ji, Yong Zhang, Shuangli Zhu, Junhan Li, Wenbo Xu, Zexin Tao, Dongmei Yan   +8 more
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Should more attention be paid to polio sequela cases in China?

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
Since “Global Polio Eradication Initiative” was launched by World Health Assembly in 1988, the incidence rate of polio has been reduced by more than 99%, and the whole world has entered a post polio era nowadays.
Jiancheng Zang, Jiancheng Zang, Longfei Feng, Jichao Wang, Jichao Wang, Xiaonan Wang, Xiaonan Wang, Kun Li, Kun Li, Xiaomei Zhai, Xiaomei Zhai   +10 more
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Characteristics of Patients at First Visit to a Polio Clinic in Sweden. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Describe polio patients visiting a polio clinic in Sweden, a country where vaccination was introduced in 1957.A consecutive cohort study.Prior polio patients.All patients (n = 865) visiting the polio clinic at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg ...
Katarina Skough Vreede, Katharina S Sunnerhagen   +1 more
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