[Comment] Maximising the impact of inactivated polio vaccines

With the globally coordinated switch from the trivalent oral polio vaccine (OPV) to the bivalent OPV in April, 2016, the international public health community entered a new chapter in the endgame of polio. Although OPV has served as the cornerstone of polio eradication efforts over the past 30 years, trivalent inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) has re-ascended to prominence in the past year, now acting as the sole source of protective immunity against type 2 poliovirus in routine immunisation programmes.

Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - April 25, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Elizabeth B Brickley, Peter F Wright Tags: Comment Source Type: research