Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Review
. 2020 Apr 4;395(10230):1163-1166.
doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30213-0.

The case for replacing live oral polio vaccine with inactivated vaccine in the Americas

Jorge A Alfaro-Murillo  1 , Marí L Ávila-Agüero  2 , Meagan C Fitzpatrick  3 , Caroline J Crystal  1 , Luiza-Helena Falleiros-Arlant  4 , Alison P Galvani  5
Affiliations
Review

The case for replacing live oral polio vaccine with inactivated vaccine in the Americas

Jorge A Alfaro-Murillo et al. Lancet. .
No abstract available

PubMed Disclaimer

Figures

Figure 1:
Figure 1:
Coverage for three doses of poliovirus vaccine in the Americas. Coverage reported by each country to the World Health Organization for the year 2018.
See this image and copyright information in PMC

References

    1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Pinkbook ∣ Appendix E: Data and Statistics. 2018; published online May 10. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/appendix/appdx-e.html (accessed Jan 16, 2020).
    1. Platt LR, Estívariz CF, Sutter RW. Vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis: a review of the epidemiology and estimation of the global burden. J Infect Dis 2014; 210 Suppl 1: S380–9. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Polio Now. http://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-now/ (accessed Jan 16, 2020).
    1. Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus. http://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-now/this-week/circulating-... (accessed Jan 16, 2020). - PMC - PubMed
    1. Hird TR, Grassly NC. Systematic review of mucosal immunity induced by oral and inactivated poliovirus vaccines against virus shedding following oral poliovirus challenge. PLoS Pathog 2012; 8: e1002599. - PMC - PubMed

MeSH terms

Substances