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Polio eradication in Ghana: past, present, and future

Frontiers in Tropical Diseases
IntroductionGhana joined the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in 1996 to interrupt wild poliovirus transmission in the country. This was a collaborative effort by the Ghana Health Service (Disease Surveillance Department and the Expanded Program on ...
John Kofi Odoom, Dennis Odai Laryea, Nana Afia Asante Ntim, Keren Attiku, Michael Adjabeng, Ewurabena Oduma Duker, Comfort Nuamah Antwi, Emmanuel Gberbi, Isaac Baffoe-Nyarko, Patience Lartekai Adams, Angelina Evelyn Dickson, Jessica Dufie Boakye, Jude Yayra Mensah, Christabel Odoom, Sharon Ansong Bimpong, Deborah Odame, Gayheart Deladem Agboste, Nancy Odoom, Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe, Evangeline Obodai   +19 more
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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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Emergence of Vaccine-Derived Polioviruses during Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak, Guinea, 2014–2015

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018
During the 2014–2015 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Guinea, 13 type 2 circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPVs) were isolated from 6 polio patients and 7 healthy contacts.
Maria Dolores Fernandez-Garcia, Manasi Majumdar, Ousmane Kebe, Aichatou D. Fall, Moussa Kone, Mouctar Kande, Moustapha Dabo, Mohamed Salif Sylla, Djenou Sompare, Wayne Howard, Ousmane Faye, Javier Martin, Kader Ndiaye   +12 more
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Understanding the reasons for refusal of polio vaccine by families in Quetta Block, Pakistan

, 2022
Muhammad Samsoor Zarak, Hamaiyal Sana, Zara Arshad, Anum Saleem, Muzhgan Shah, Helmand Tareen, Sami Ullah, Saba Baloch, Saleha Kakar, Kalsum Kakar   +9 more
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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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Detection of immunoglobulin G levels produced by oral polio vaccine in HIV infected children in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2019
Introduction: disease eradication requires a long time and efficient management as compared to disease control program. After successful small pox eradication, Polio virus causing poliomyelitis is choice for next eradication.
Fwangshak Ayuba Lengkat, Onuoha Stanley Chukwudozie, Oladele, Olasoji Vincent, Dasun Martin James, Hashimu Godiya Amina, Onyedibe Kenneth   +5 more
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Measles and rubella elimination: learning from polio eradication and moving forward with a diagonal approach

Expert Review of Vaccines, 2017
Introduction: In 1988, an estimated 350,000 children were paralyzed by polio and 125 countries reported polio cases, the World Health Assembly passed a resolution to achieve polio eradication by 2000, and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI ...
James L. Goodson, James P. Alexander, Robert W. Linkins, Walter A. Orenstein   +3 more
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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
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Comparison of 2 Different Regimens for Reactogenicity, Safety, and Immunogenicity of the Live Attenuated Oral Rotavirus Vaccine RIX4414 Coadministered with Oral Polio Vaccine in South African Infants [PDF]

, 2010
A. Duncan Steele, J. Reynders, F. Scholtz, P.K. Bos, M. C. de Beer, John Tumbo, C.F. van der Merwe, A. Delem, Béatrice De Vos   +8 more
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A novel gamma radiation-inactivated sabin-based polio vaccine [PDF]

, 2020
Gregory J. Tobin, John K. Tobin, Elena K. Gaidamakova, Taralyn J. Wiggins, Ruth V. Bushnell, Wai-Ming Lee, Vera Y. Matrosova, Stephen J. Dollery, Heather N. Meeks, Diana Kouiavskaia, Konstantin Chumakov, Michael J. Daly   +11 more
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