Epidemiological survey and genetic characterization of type 3 vaccine-derived poliovirus isolated from a patient with four doses of inactivated polio vaccine in Henan Province, China

• Main Authors: Mingyu Zhang (Author), Jianhui Yang (Author), Yiran Bai (Author), Hui Zhu (Author), Changshuang Wang (Author), Lu Zhang (Author), Jin Xu (Author), Mingxia Lu (Author), Xiaoxiao Zhang (Author), Zhanpei Xiao (Author), Yating Ma (Author), Yan Wang (Author), Xiaolei Li (Author), Dongyan Wang (Author), Shuangli Zhu (Author), Dongmei Yan (Author), Wenbo Xu (Author), Yong Zhang (Author), Yanyang Zhang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a potential threat to polio eradication because they can reintroduce into the general population and cause paralytic polio outbreaks, a phenomenon that has recently emerged as a prominent public health concern at the end of global polio eradic...