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Comment
. 2023 Jun;86(6):629-631.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2023.02.026. Epub 2023 Feb 21.

Battle of Polio eradication in the Western Pacific Region in the transition to COVID-19 endemicity

Ruobing Mei  1 , Shirley L L Kwok  1 , Eric H Y Lau  1 , Tiffany H K Lo  1 , Joseph T Wu  2 , Leesa Lin  3 , Kathy Leung  4
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Battle of Polio eradication in the Western Pacific Region in the transition to COVID-19 endemicity

Ruobing Mei et al. J Infect. 2023 Jun.
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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare no competing interests.

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Poliovirus vaccination schedules in the Western Pacific Region countries or regions. Note: regions with lowercase letters denote provinces, municipality, or special administrative regions of China. Gray areas indicate countries or regions not included in our study. IPV = inactivated polio vaccine, bOPV = bivalent oral polio vaccine.
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