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SUBMITTER: Ciapponi A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6953375 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ciapponi Agustín A Bardach Ariel A Rey Ares Lucila L Glujovsky Demián D Cafferata María Luisa ML Cesaroni Silvana S Bhatti Aikant A
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 20191205
<h4>Background</h4>Poliomyelitis mainly affects unvaccinated children under five years of age, causing irreversible paralysis or even death. The oral polio vaccine (OPV) contains live attenuated virus, which can, in rare cases, cause a paralysis known as vaccine-associated paralytic polio (VAPP), and also vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPVs) due to acquired neurovirulence after prolonged duration of replication. The incidence of poliomyelitis caused by wild polio virus (WPV) has declined dramati ...[more]