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Assessing the stability of polio eradication after the withdrawal of oral polio vaccine

2016-10-27

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The oral polio vaccine (OPV) contains live-attenuated polioviruses that induce immunity by causing low virulence infections in vaccine recipients and their close contacts. Widespread immunization with OPV has reduced the annual global burden of paralytic poliomyelitis by a factor of ten thousand or more and has driven wild poliovirus (WPV) to the brink of eradication. However, in instances that have so far been ra...

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2e16bebb-69c9-5936-b3c5-91537967c6a8
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10.1101/084012
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