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PLOS Global Public Health, 2022 Global efforts to eradicate polio by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative agency partners and country-level stakeholders have led to the implementation of global polio vaccination programs.
O. Ezezika +5 more
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Progress Toward Polio Eradication — Worldwide, January 2019–June 2021
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2021 In 1988, when the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) began, polio paralyzed >350,000 children across 125 countries. Today, only one of three wild poliovirus serotypes, type 1 (WPV1), remains in circulation in only two countries, Afghanistan and ...
J. Bigouette +5 more
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Eradicating polio in Pakistan: a systematic review of programs and policies
Expert Review of Vaccines, 2021 Introduction: Established in 1994, Pakistan’s polio program demonstrated early success. However, despite over 120 supplementary immunization activities in the last decade, polio eradication efforts in Pakistan have been unable to achieve their objective ...
A. Ataullahjan +4 more
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Engineering the Live-Attenuated Polio Vaccine to Prevent Reversion to Virulence
Cell Host and Microbe, 2020 Summary The live-attenuated oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV or Sabin vaccine) replicates in gut-associated tissues, eliciting mucosa and systemic immunity. OPV protects from disease and limits poliovirus spread.
Ming-Te Yeh +12 more
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Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021 DTP-containing (pertussis, diphtheria and tetanus) combined with polio vaccines are recommended by WHO as part of routine immunization programs. The decline of immunity after vaccination has been considered as a possible reason for the re-emergence of ...
Huizhi Gao, E. Lau, B. Cowling
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The impact of disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on global polio eradication
Vaccine, 2021 In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic led to substantial disruptions in global activities. The disruptions also included intentional and unintentional reductions in health services, including immunization campaigns against the transmission of wild ...
D. A. Kalkowska +6 more
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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 +18 more
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An education and negotiation of differences: the ‘schooling’ experiences of English-speaking Canadian children growing up with polio during the 1940s and 1950s [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper we present oral narratives focusing on schooling experiences of Canadians who lived with polio as children between 1940 and 1959. We argue that disabled students with polio received an education about the differences ascribed to them by ...
Ellis, J., Shanouda, F., Yoshida, K. K.
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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 +12 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 +10 more
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