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Assessing the stability of polio eradication after the withdrawal of oral polio vaccine

The oral polio vaccine (OPV) contains live-attenuated polioviruses that induce immunity by causing low virulence infections in vaccine recipients and their close contacts. Widespread immunization with OPV has reduced the annual global burden of paralytic poliomyelitis by a factor of 10,000 or more a...

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Autores principales: Famulare, Michael, Selinger, Christian, McCarthy, Kevin A., Eckhoff, Philip A., Chabot-Couture, Guillaume
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5942853/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29702638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2002468