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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 +7 more
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Revista Paulista de Pediatria, 2021 Objective: To describe the prevalence of neutralizing antibodies against poliovirus (PV1, PV2, and PV3) in blood samples of healthcare professionals aged 20 to 50 years.
José Cassio de Moraes +2 more
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Vaccines, 2022 Oral and inactivated poliovirus (PV) vaccines have contributed toward the global eradication of wild PV2 and PV3, as well as the elimination of PV1 in most countries.
Angela Maria Vittoria Larocca +5 more
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Promising opportunities to improve polio vaccines
Биопрепараты: Профилактика, диагностика, лечение, 2022 Polioviruses belong to Enterovirus C species and cause severe lesions of the nervous system. In the post-polio eradication era, the World Health Organisation recommends inactivated polio vaccines for effective long-term protection of the population.
E. E. Evreinova +4 more
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The Pathology of Poliomyelitis and the Vaccines and Nonvaccine Therapy [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 Poliomyelitis is an exclusively human disease that mainly affects children. Clinical features of poliomyelitis can be varied, from mild illness to the most severe paralysis, and the factor why poliomyelitis has different performances in individuals has ...
Chen Yushuo, Yue Tianrui, Zhang Zixiao
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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 +5 more
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npj Vaccines, 2022 We recently reported a lack of interference between inactivated rotavirus vaccine (IRV) and inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) and their potential dose sparing when the two vaccines were administered intramuscularly either in combination or standalone ...
Sung-Sil Moon +11 more
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Effectiveness of influenza vaccine in aging and older adults: comprehensive analysis of the evidence [PDF]
, 2012 Foremost amongst the diseases preventable by vaccination is influenza. Worldwide, influenza virus infection is associated with serious adverse events leading to hospitalization, debilitating complications, and death in elderly individuals ...
Assir N +11 more
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Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022 Although safe, rotavirus vaccines have been associated with increased intussusception risk. In Brazil, after the oral human rotavirus vaccine (OHRV) introduction in the childhood immunization, in 2006, increased intussusception risk was identified after ...
Camila Cristina Martini Rodrigues +6 more
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Reduced mucosal immunity to poliovirus after cessation of trivalent oral polio vaccine
Human 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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