Looks at the major concerns surrounding the proposed change from current oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) to the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) for children in 1996. Discussion at the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices; Preferred schedules versus alternative schedules; Major concern in the ...
IPV offers complete individual protection and has been considered as an additional tool at present for those who can afford the vaccine, and since we are nearing the eradication of polio, it is time to shift from OPV to sequential OPV-IPV schedule in India. Such a strategy will avoid ...
Salk strain IPV (wIPV) was first introduced into routine immunization schedule for children in China in 2016 and is currently available as containing WPV strains, and our self-developed IPV derived from Sabin strain IPV(sIPV) is also used in the current polio vaccine sequential immunization schedu...
The standard vaccination schedule has been well-established in the United States [6] and in various other parts of the world [7]. For vaccinations to be effective in protecting the targeted population, it is hoped that several features will be met, as follows: (i) the vaccine should ...
Introduction of sequential inactivated polio vaccine-oral polio vaccine schedule for routine infant immunization in Brazil's National Immunization Program. J Infect Dis 2014;210(Suppl 1):S143-51.Domingues CMAS, Pereira SF, Marreiros ACC, Menezes N, Flan- nery B. Introduction of sequential ...