Polio vaccines: WHO position paper, March 2016–recommendations

Vaccine

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1197-1199

  World Health Organization, ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INACTIVATED VACCINE; ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; NOTE; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAVEL; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; MALE; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOVIRUS VACCINE, INACTIVATED; POLIOVIRUS VACCINE, ORAL; POLIOVIRUS VACCINES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PUBLIC HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 85007314581     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.11.017     Document Type: Note

References (8)

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5. [5] The risk of importation and subsequent spread is determined mainly by the level of immunization coverage, sanitation, and overall socioeconomic status.
6. [6] Meeting of the strategic advisory group of experts on immunization, October 2015 – conclusions and recommendations, Week. Epidemiol. Rec. 90(50) (2015) 681–700.
7. [7] Potential for importation is considered very high in countries bordering endemic countries or countries that have recurrent outbreaks; the potential is considered high if there is a history of importation plus high traffic across the border; the potential is considered moderate in the rest of the world.
8. [8] <15% (or <750 for infants <12 months, <500 for those 1 through 5 years and <200 for those ⩾6 years).