Preventing Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Emergence during the Polio Endgame.

Reversion and spread of vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) to cause outbreaks of poliomyelitis is a rare outcome resulting from immunisation with the live-attenuated oral poliovirus vaccines (OPVs). Global withdrawal of all three OPV serotypes is therefore a key objective of the polio endgame strateg...

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Main Authors: Margarita Pons-Salort, Cara C Burns, Hil Lyons, Isobel M Blake, Hamid Jafari, M Steven Oberste, Olen M Kew, Nicholas C Grassly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-07-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1005728&type=printable
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