Rapid emergence and transmission of virulence-associated mutations in the oral poliovirus vaccine following vaccination campaigns

Abstract There is an increasing burden of circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPVs) due to the continued use of oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV). However, the informativeness of routine OPV VP1 sequencing for the early identification of viruses carrying virulence-associated reversion mutations...

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Main Authors: Katharine S. Walter, Jonathan Altamirano, ChunHong Huang, Yuan J. Carrington, Frank Zhou, Jason R. Andrews, Yvonne Maldonado
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-09-01
Series:npj Vaccines
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41541-023-00740-9