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Poliomyelitis amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa: Efforts, challenges and recommendations

Clinical 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, Emmanuel Ebuka Elebesunu, Oumnia Bouaddi, Arushi Kapoor, Samaa Akhtar, Fortune Benjamin Effiong, Adhiraj Chaudhary, Helen Onyeaka   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring Knowledge and Perceptions of Polio Disease and Its Immunization in Polio High-Risk Areas of Pakistan

Vaccines, 2023
Pakistan is one of the few countries where poliovirus transmission still persists, despite intensive efforts to eradicate the disease. Adequate vaccination coverage is essential to achieve polio eradication, but misconceptions about polio vaccines have ...
Muhammad Atif Habib, Farhana Tabassum, Imtiaz Hussain, Tooba Jawed Khan, Nazia Syed, Fariha Shaheen, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Polio Vaccination Status of Non-polio Acute Flaccid Paralysis Cases in the Far North Region of Cameroon: A Five-Year Retrospective Study From 2015 to 2019. [PDF]

Cureus
Wakam Nkontchou B, Guenou E, Buh Nkum C, Mairousgou Tchida C, Nono AM, Ateudjieu J.   +5 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Crippling Violence: Conflict and Incident Polio in Afghanistan. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
BACKGROUND:Designing effective public health campaigns in areas of armed conflict requires a nuanced understanding of how violence impacts the epidemiology of the disease in question.
Alison Norris, Kevin Hachey, Andrew Curtis, Margaret Bourdeaux   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implications of COVID-19 and “super floods” for routine vaccination in Pakistan: The reemergence of vaccine preventable-diseases such as polio and measles

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022
With multiple waves and variants, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected routine vaccination programs globally. Its impact is also visible in Pakistan as routine health services continue to be disrupted.
Inayat Ali, Saima Hamid
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Vaccination With Oral Polio Vaccine Reduces COVID-19 Incidence

Frontiers in Immunology, 2022
Background Effective response to emerging pandemic threats is complicated by the need to develop specific vaccines and other medical products. The availability of broadly specific countermeasures that could be deployed early in the pandemic could ...
N. V. Yagovkina, L. M. Zheleznov, K. A. Subbotina, A. A. Tsaan, L. Kozlovskaya, I. Gordeychuk, Anastasia K. Korduban, Y. Ivin, A. Kovpak, A. Piniaeva, A. Shishova, E. Shustova, Y. K. Khapchaev, G. Karganova, A. Siniugina, T. V. Pomaskina, A. A. Erovichenkov, K. Chumakov, A. Ishmukhametov   +18 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Comparison of Neutralizing Antibody Response to Type 1 Polio Virus on Healthy Infants Receiving either Oral Monovalen Polio Vaccine Type 1 or Oral Trivalen Polio Vaccine Given with Basic DTP/Hb Immunization

Indonesian Journal of Tropical and Infectious Disease, 2010
In March 2005, there was outbreak of Polio-1 and expanded throughout Java and Sumatera island. Oral monovalent polio vaccine type 1 (mOPV1) had succeeded in evereeming polio outbreak in Indonesia in 2005.
Edim Hartati, Ismoedijanto Ismoedijanto, Soegeng Soegijanto   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inactivated polio vaccination using a microneedle patch is immunogenic in the rhesus macaque

Vaccine, 2015
Chris Edens, William C Weldon, Mark R Prausnitz   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Deficiency of immunity to poliovirus type 3: a lurking danger? [PDF]

, 2012
Background: Europe was certified to be polio-free in 2002 by the WHO. However, wild polioviruses remain endemic in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria, occasionally causing polio outbreaks, as in Tajikistan in 2010.
Doerr, Hans W., Friedrichs, Imke, Rabenau, Holger, Reinheimer, Claudia   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Bayesian Analysis of Predictors of Incomplete Vaccination against Polio among Children Aged 12–23 Months in Ethiopia

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
Background: The re-introduction of polio among children aged 12–23 months is likely to occur in Ethiopia due to the low vaccination rates against poliovirus.
Teshita Uke Chikako, A. Seidu, J. Hagan, R. Aboagye, B. O. Ahinkorah   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source