A developing country perspective on vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis

When the Expanded Programme on Immunization was established and oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) was introduced for developing countries to use exclusively, national leaders of public health had no opportunity to make an informed choice between OPV and the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV). Today, a...

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Main Author:	John T. Jacob
Format:	Artigo
Language:	Inglês
Published:	The World Health Organization 2004-01-01
Series:	Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Subjects:	Poliovirus vaccine, Oral/adverse effects Poliomyelitis/epidemiology Poliomyelitis/chemically induced Poliovirus vaccine, Inactivated/therapeutic use Poliovirus vaccine, Inactivated/economics Poliovirus/drug effects Immunization programs Developing countries
Online Access:	http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862004000100011
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