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Emerging Infectious Diseases, July 2010
Abstract
To determine the prevalence of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP) in immunodeficient infants, we reviewed all documented cases caused by immunodeficiency-associated vaccine-derived polioviruses in Iran from 1995 through 2008. Changing to an inactivated polio vaccine vaccination schedule of screening of neonates for immunodeficiencies could reduce the risk for VAPP infection
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