Exploring the path to polio eradication: insights from consecutive seroprevalence surveys among Pakistani children
IntroductionAfter trivalent oral poliovirus vaccine (tOPV) cessation, Pakistan has maintained immunity to type 2 poliovirus by administering inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) in routine immunization, alongside monovalent OPV type 2 (mOPV2) and IPV in supplementary immunization activities (SIAs). This...
Main Authors: | Imtiaz Hussain, Muhammad Umer, Ahmad Khan, Muhammad Sajid, Imran Ahmed, Kehkashan Begum, Junaid Iqbal, Muhammad M. Alam, Rana M. Safdar, Shahzad Baig, Arie Voorman, Jeffrey Partridge, Sajid Soofi |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2024-03-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Public Health |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1384410/full |
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