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INTERNATIONAL SPREAD OF WILD POLIOVIRUS

W.H.O. STATEMENT ON THE SECOND MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS EMERGENCY COMMITTEE CONCERNING THE INTERNATIONAL SPREAD OF WILD POLIOVIRUS W.H.O. statement 3 August 2014 On 5 May 2014 the Director-General declared the international ... read more

INFLUENCE OF ENTERIC INFECTIONS ON RESPONSE TO ORA ...

INFLUENCE OF ENTERIC INFECTIONS ON RESPONSE TO ORAL POLIOVIRUS VACCINE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS Journal of Infectious Diseasesjid.oxfordjournals.org J Infect Dis. (2014) 210 (6): 853-864. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiu182 First published onl ... read more

EFFECT OF A SINGLE INACTIVATED POLIOVIRUS VACCINE ...

EFFECT OF A SINGLE INACTIVATED POLIOVIRUS VACCINE DOSE ON INTESTINAL IMMUNITY AGAINST POLIOVIRUS IN CHILDREN PREVIOUSLY GIVEN ORAL VACCINE: AN OPEN-LABEL, RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIALDear All, A place for IPV in interrupting WPV in the remaining ende ... read more

THREE ITEMS ON INACTIVATED POLIO VACCINE

THREE ITEMS ON INACTIVATED POLIO VACCINE Dear All, Polio specialists will take special interest in two items recently published, one each in Science and The Lancet. Since another posting, on the combined use of IPV and OPV in Kenya, drew over 2000 ... read more

EFFICACY OF INACTIVATED POLIOVIRUS VACCINE IN INDI ...

EFFICACY OF INACTIVATED POLIOVIRUS VACCINE IN INDIA Hamid Jafari1,*, Jagadish M. Deshpande2, Roland W. Sutter3,†, Sunil Bahl1, Harish Verma3, Mohammad Ahmad1, Abhishek Kunwar1, Rakesh Vi ... read more

ISLAM AND POLIO

ISLAM AND POLIO From The Lancet Infectious Diseases Also at http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099%2814%2970856-4/fulltext#aff1   Fatima Riaz a, Yasir Waheed a  a Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences (AS ... read more

ASSESSING AND MITIGATING THE RISK OF OUTBREAKS OF ...

ASSESSING AND MITIGATING THE RISK OF OUTBREAKS OF WILD POLIOVIRUS IN POLIO FREE AFRICAN COUNTRIES Although Africa has only one endemic country remaining, the continent has in the past seen WPV importations from outside and inside the region (India t ... read more

THE FINAL PHASE OF POLIO ERADICATION AND ENDGAME S ...

Dear All, THE FINAL PHASE OF POLIO ERADICATION AND ENDGAME STRATEGIES This is the second time in recent years that the Journal of Infectious Diseases has devoted an entire supplement to a single EPI target disease (previously, to measles).  Yo ... read more