Vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis

Authors

  • Margaret A Burgess National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS), Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, PO Box 3515, Westmead, New South Wales, 2141
  • Peter B McIntyre National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS), Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, PO Box 3515, Westmead, New South Wales, 2141

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.1999.23.10

Keywords:

acute flaccid paralysis, vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP)

Abstract

In the wake of the World Health Organization's (WHO) program to eradicate poliomyelitis globally by the end of the year 2000 (in 1997 only 5,186 cases were reported world-wide), attention has focussed on the importance of good surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis, which is essential for a country to qualify for being declared polio-free, and on the occurrence of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP).

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18/03/99

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Burgess, Margaret A, and Peter B McIntyre. 1999. “Vaccine-Associated Paralytic Poliomyelitis”. Communicable Diseases Intelligence 23 (March):80-81. https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.1999.23.10.

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