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Polio in Afghanistan, Selected Citations from 2017 and 2018

Monday, 27th of August 2018 Print

Polio in Afghanistan, Selected Citations from 2017 and 2018

Please see below, with weblinks, citations on polio in Afghanistan, one of the world’s three remaining polio endemic countries.

Item 3 is an original study on antibodies from high risk areas. Item 4 discusses the relative uses of OPV and IPV.

Item 12 discusses Islamic militancy in the context of the three remaining polio endemic countries.

Good reading

 

  1. 1.      Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication - Afghanistan, January 2017-May 2018.

Martinez M, Shukla H, Ahmadzai M, Nikulin J, Wadood MZ, Ahmed J, Mbaeyi C, Jorba J, Ehrhardt D.

MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2018 Aug 3;67(30):833-837.

doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6730a6.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6730a6.htm?s_cid=mm6730a6_w

 

  1. 2.      Breaking the Last Chains of Poliovirus Transmission: Progress and Challenges in Global Polio Eradication.

Kew O, Pallansch M.

Annu Rev Virol. 2018 Jul 12. doi: 10.1146/annurev-virology-101416-041749.

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-virology-101416-041749

 

  1. 3.      Seroprevalence of anti-polio antibodies in children from polio high risk area of Afghanistan: A cross sectional survey 2017.

Hussain I, Mach O, Hamid NA, Bhatti ZS, Moore DD, Oberste MS, Khan S, Khan H, Weldon WC, Sutter RW, Bhutta ZA, Soofi SB.

Vaccine. 2018 Apr 5;36(15):1921-1924. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.02.055. Epub 2018 Mar 3.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X18302421?via%3Dihub

 

  1. 4.      Modeling Poliovirus Transmission in Pakistan and Afghanistan to Inform Vaccination Strategies in Undervaccinated Subpopulations.

Duintjer Tebbens RJ, Pallansch MA, Cochi SL, Ehrhardt DT, Farag NH, Hadler SC, Hampton LM, Martinez M, Wassilak SGF, Thompson KM.

Risk Anal. 2018 Aug;38(8):1701-1717. doi: 10.1111/risa.12962. Epub 2018 Jan 3.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/risa.12962

 

 

 

  1. 5.      Evaluating cessation of the type 2 oral polio vaccine by modeling pre- and post-cessation detection rates.

Kroiss SJ, Famulare M, Lyons H, McCarthy KA, Mercer LD, Chabot-Couture G.

Vaccine. 2017 Oct 9;35(42):5674-5681. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.08.048. Epub 2017 Sep 8.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X17311362?via%3Dihub

 

  1. 6.      Lessons From the Polio Endgame: Overcoming the Failure to Vaccinate and the Role of Subpopulations in Maintaining Transmission.

Thompson KM, Duintjer Tebbens RJ.

J Infect Dis. 2017 Jul 1;216(suppl_1):S176-S182. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jix108.

https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/216/suppl_1/S176/3935072

 

  1. 7.      Routine Immunization Service Delivery Through the Basic Package of Health Services Program in Afghanistan: Gaps, Challenges, and Opportunities.

Mbaeyi C, Kamawal NS, Porter KA, Azizi AK, Sadaat I, Hadler S, Ehrhardt D.

J Infect Dis. 2017 Jul 1;216(suppl_1):S273-S279. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiw549.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28838158

 

  1. 8.      Understanding threats to polio vaccine commitment among caregivers in high-priority areas of Afghanistan: a polling study.

SteelFisher GK, Blendon RJ, Guirguis S, Lodge W 2nd, Caporello H, Petit V, Coleman M, Williams MR, Parwiz SM, Corkum M, Gardner S, Ben-Porath EN.

Lancet Infect Dis. 2017 Nov;17(11):1172-1179. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(17)30397-3. Epub 2017 Aug 14.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28818541

 

  1. 9.      Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication - Afghanistan, January 2016-June 2017.

Martinez M, Shukla H, Nikulin J, Wadood MZ, Hadler S, Mbaeyi C, Tangermann R, Jorba J, Ehrhardt D.

MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2017 Aug 18;66(32):854-858. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6632a5.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6632a5.htm

 

 

10.  Surveillance Systems to Track Progress Toward Polio Eradication - Worldwide, 2015-2016.

Maes EF, Diop OM, Jorba J, Chavan S, Tangermann RH, Wassilak SG.

MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2017 Apr 7;66(13):359-365. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6613a3.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6613a3.htm

 

11.  Improving immunization in Afghanistan: results from a cross-sectional community-based survey to assess routine immunization coverage.

Mugali RR, Mansoor F, Parwiz S, Ahmad F, Safi N, Higgins-Steele A, Varkey S.

BMC Public Health. 2017 Apr 4;17(1):290. doi: 10.1186/s12889-017-4193-z.

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-017-4193-z

 

12.  Why have the majority of recent polio cases occurred in countries affected by Islamist militancy? A historical comparative analysis of the political determinants of polio in Nigeria, Somalia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Syria.

Kennedy J.

Med Confl Surviv. 2016 Oct-Dec;32(4):295-316. doi: 10.1080/13623699.2017.1294338. Epub 2017 Mar 7.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13623699.2017.1294338?journalCode=fmcs20

 

 

 

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