Vaccine-Derived Polioviruses and Children with Primary Immunodeficiency, Iran, 1995–2014

Vaccine-Derived Polioviruses and Children with Primary Immunodeficiency, Iran, 1995–2014

Widespread use of oral poliovirus vaccine has led to an ≈99.9% decrease in global incidence of poliomyelitis (from ≈350,000 cases in 1988 to 74 cases in 2015) and eradication of wild-type poliovirus serotypes 2 and 3. However, patients with primary immunodeficiency might shed vaccine-derived poliovi...

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Main Authors: Mohammadreza Shaghaghi, Shohreh Shahmahmoodi, Hassan Abolhassani, Saeed Soleyman-jahi, Leila Parvaneh, Sussan Mahmoudi, Zahra Chavoshzadeh, Reza Yazdani, Seyed Mohsen Zahraei, Mohsen Ebrahimi, Mohammad H. Eslamian, Hamideh Tabatabaie, Maryam Yousefi, Yaghoob M. Kandelousi, Aliasghar Oujaghlou, Nima Rezaei, Asghar Aghamohammadi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2016-10-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
poliomyelitis
polio
vaccination
poliovirus
vaccine-derived poliovirus
viruses
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/22/10/15-1071_article

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