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Excretion of vaccine polioviruses by the children From closed institutions
Investigation of 198 healthy vaccinees from closed institutions resulted in isolation of37 vaccine polioviruses. In the orphanages where among other children there lived children born to HIV-positive mothers the frequency of isolation of polioviruses was
M. A. Bichurina +2 more
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Genetic characterization of type 3 vaccine-derived poliovirus from a patient with hand, foot, and mouth disease in China. [PDF]
Background The Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) is genetically unstable and may mutate to form vaccinederived polioviruses (VDPVs). At present, the finding of VDPV mainly come from AFP surveillance and environmental sewage surveillance.
Zhang W +7 more
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Background Oral polio vaccine (OPV) containing attenuated serotype 2 polioviruses was globally withdrawn in 2016, and bivalent OPV (bOPV) containing attenuated serotype 1 and 3 polioviruses needs to be withdrawn after the certification of eradication of ...
Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens +2 more
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Global situation for poliomyelitis. Who strategy and tactics of global polio eradication
The review deals with the epidemic situation for poliomyelitis in the world. It describes the strategy and tactics of the World Health Organisation aimed at realisation of Global Polio Eradication Initiative and the main phases of the Initiative.
M. A. Bichurina +3 more
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Influence of cold on host-parasite interactions. [PDF]
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Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory (U.S.) +2 more
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Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) is a rare side effect of the oral polio vaccine but can be associated with outbreaks and permanent disability in patients harboring circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPVs).
Mary Bridget Nanteza +11 more
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Serological survey on immunity status against polioviruses in children and adolescents living in a border region, Apulia (Southern Italy) [PDF]
BACKGROUND: In 1988 the World Health Assembly adopted the goal to eradicate poliomyelitis by routine immunization using Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV). On 21 June 2002 the WHO European Region was declared polio-free.
Silvio Tafuri +36 more
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Epidemics to eradication: the modern history of poliomyelitis [PDF]
Poliomyelitis has afflicted humankind since antiquity, and for nearly a century now, we have known the causative agent, poliovirus. This pathogen is an enterovirus that in recent history has been the source of a great deal of human suffering.
Nidia H De Jesus
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STUDY OF IMMUNITY TO POLIOVIRUSES ON CERTAIN "SILENT" TERRITORIES OF RUSSIA
. The degree of immunity to polioviruses of three serotypes among children of different ages was analysed on certain "controlled" and "silent" territories of Russia in different periods of Polio Eradication Initiative.
N. I. Romanenkova +3 more
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Molecular epidemiology of enteroviruses from Guatemalan wastewater isolated from human lung fibroblasts. [PDF]
The Global Specialized Polio Laboratory at CDC supports the Global Poliovirus Laboratory Network with environmental surveillance (ES) to detect the presence of vaccine strain polioviruses, vaccine-derived polioviruses, and wild polioviruses in high-risk ...
Sayyad L +13 more
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