Evgenia V. Karpova

Neutralizing Activity of Vaccine-Induced Antibodies Against Vaccine-Derived Polioviruses Type 2

Background: Nowadays, poliomyelitis caused by wild polioviruses (PVs) has been virtually eradicated. However, since the removal of the type 2 component from the oral polio vaccine (OPV), immunity to PV2 has declined despite expansion of the use of the inactivated polio vaccine (I...