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The effect of mass immunisation campaigns and new oral poliovirus vaccines on the incidence of poliomyelitis in Pakistan and Afghanistan, 2001–11: a retrospective analysis

BACKGROUND: Pakistan and Afghanistan are two of the three remaining countries yet to interrupt wild-type poliovirus transmission. The increasing incidence of poliomyelitis in these countries during 2010–11 led the Executive Board of WHO in January, 2012, to declare polio eradication a “programmatic...

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Autores principales: O'Reilly, Kathleen M, Durry, Elias, ul Islam, Obaid, Quddus, Arshad, Abid, Ni'ma, Mir, Tahir P, Tangermann, Rudi H, Aylward, R Bruce, Grassly, Nicholas C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lancet Publishing Group 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3418593/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22766207
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60648-5