Article
Neurologic complications associated with oral poliovirus vaccine and genomic variability of the vaccine strains after multiplication in humans.
Acta virologica - 1 Jun 1998
Friedrich F
Abstract excerpt
The oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) has been effectively used in the reduction and control of poliomyelitis cases on the planet. Despite several advantages of using the attenuated OPV strains, the rare occurrence of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP) cases in vaccine recipients and t...
Topics
- Feces
- Genome, Viral
- Humans
- Mutation
- Nervous System
- Nervous System Diseases
- Poliomyelitis
- Poliovirus
- Poliovirus Vaccine, Oral
- Recombination, Genetic