Response to back-to-back outbreaks of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 in two nomadic pastoralist settlements in Oti Region, Ghana-2019
Abstract Background The global switch from trivalent oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) to bivalent OPV in April 2016 without corresponding co-administration of inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) until June 2018, created a cohort of poliovirus type 2 naïve children with risk of developing vaccine-deriv...
Main Authors: | Donne Kofi Ameme, Yaw Ofori Yeboah, John Kofi Odoom, Senanu Kwesi Djokoto, Ernest Akyereko, Abdulaziz Mamudu, Mukaila Diwura, William Opare, Patrick Avevor, Stanley Diamenu, Sally-Ann Ohene, Ernest Kenu, Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2023-01-01
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Series: | Archives of Public Health |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13690-022-01021-y |
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