The risk of type 2 oral polio vaccine use in post-cessation outbreak response
Wild type 2 poliovirus was last observed in 1999. The Sabin-strain oral polio vaccine type 2 (OPV2) was critical to eradication, but it is known to revert to a neurovirulent phenotype, causing vaccine-associat...
Source: BMC Medicine - Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Kevin A. McCarthy, Guillaume Chabot-Couture, Michael Famulare, Hil M. Lyons and Laina D. Mercer Tags: Research article Source Type: research