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Determinants of monovalent oral polio vaccine mutagenesis in vaccinated elderly people.
Vaccine - 11 Jun 2007
Boot Hein J, Sonsma Jan, van Nunen Femke, Abbink Frithjofna, Kimman Tjeerd G, Buisman Anne-Marie
Abstract excerpt
Live oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) strains can mutate and recombine during replication in the host. Trivalent OPV has long been used to restrain wild-type poliovirus in developing countries. However, recently WHO advocates using monovalent OPV (mOPV) to finally eradicate poliovirus world-wide. We analysed polioviruses recovered from the faeces of 101 elderly patients (divided into three groups by immune status)...
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