What threat from persistent vaccine-related poliovirus?

Lancet

Volumn 366, Issue 9483, 2005, Pages 351-353

  MacLennan, Calman ^a,b   MacLennan, Jenny ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INACTIVATED VIRUS VACCINE; LIVE VACCINE; ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; TRIPLE VACCINE;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG COST; ERADICATION THERAPY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; NOTE; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 23044462939     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)66387-8     Document Type: Note

References (14)

1. AB Sabin Oral poliovirus vaccine: history of its development and use and current challenge to eliminate poliomyelitis from the world J Infect Dis 151 1985 420 436
2. JP Alexander, HE Gary, MA Pallansch Duration of poliovirus excretion and its implications for acute flaccid paralysis surveillance: a review of the literature J Infect Dis 175 suppl 1 1997 S176 S182
3. WHO Introduction of inactivated poliovirus vaccine into oral poliovirus vaccine-using countries Wkly Epidemiol Rec 78 2003 241 250
4. OM Kew, MN Mulders, GY Lipskaya, EE da Silva, MA Pallansch Molecular epidemiology of polioviruses Semin Virol 6 1995 401 414
5. WR Dowdle, ME Birmingham The biological principles of poliovirus eradication J Infect Dis 175 suppl 1 1997 S286 S292
6. C MacLennan, G Dunn, AP Huissoon Failure to clear persistent vaccine-derived neurovirulent poliovirus infection in an immunodeficient man Lancet 363 2004 1509 1513
7. NA Halsey, J Pinto, F Espinosa-Rosales for Polio Project Team Search for poliovirus carriers among people with primary immune deficiency diseases in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and the United Kingdom Bull World Health Organ 82 2004 3 8
8. OM Kew, PF Wright, VI Agol Circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses Bull World Health Organ 82 2004 16 23
9. WHO Global Polio Eradication Initiative: strategic plan 2004-2008 2003 World Health Organization Geneva http://www.polioeradication.org/content/ publications/2004stratplan.pdf (accessed April 14, 2005)
10. WHO Polio laboratory manual 4th edn. 2004 World Health Organization Geneva http://www.who.int/vaccines/en/poliolab/WHO-Polio-Manual-9.pdf (accessed April 24, 2005)
11. WHO Guidelines for environmental surveillance of poliovirus circulation 2003 World Health Organization Geneva http://www.who.int/vaccines-documents/ DocsPDF03/www737.pdf (accessed April 24, 2005)
12. N Nathanson, JR Martin The epidemiology of poliomyelitis: enigmas surrounding its appearance, epidemicity, and disappearance Am J Epidemiol 110 1979 672 692
13. WHO 115th Executive Board report: eradication of poliomyelitis report by the Secretariat 2004 World Health Organization Geneva http://www. polioeradication.org/content/publications/EB%20report%202005.pdf (accessed April 24, 2005)
14. WHO Progress towards poliomyelitis eradication-poliomyelitis outbreak in Sudan, 2004 Wkly Epidemiol Rec 5 2005 42 46