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SUBMITTER: Van Damme P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6626986 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Van Damme Pierre P De Coster Ilse I Bandyopadhyay Ananda S AS Revets Hilde H Withanage Kanchanamala K De Smedt Philippe P Suykens Leen L Oberste M Steven MS Weldon William C WC Costa-Clemens Sue Ann SA Clemens Ralf R Modlin John J Weiner Amy J AJ Macadam Andrew J AJ Andino Raul R Kew Olen M OM Konopka-Anstadt Jennifer L JL Burns Cara C CC Konz John J Wahid Rahnuma R Gast Christopher C
Lancet (London, England) 20190604 10193
<h4>Background</h4>Use of oral live-attenuated polio vaccines (OPV), and injected inactivated polio vaccines (IPV) has almost achieved global eradication of wild polio viruses. To address the goals of achieving and maintaining global eradication and minimising the risk of outbreaks of vaccine-derived polioviruses, we tested novel monovalent oral type-2 poliovirus (OPV2) vaccine candidates that are genetically more stable than existing OPVs, with a lower risk of reversion to neurovirulence. Our s ...[more]