Polio
Poliovirus
poliovirus
Polio is an acute infectious disease caused by the poliovirus and characterized by fever, motor paralysis, and atrophy of skeletal muscles often with permanent disability and deformity and marked by inflammation of nerve cells in the anterior gray matter in each lateral half of the spinal cord -- called also infantile paralysis
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Polio Eradication: Progress, Challenges, Future
10 May 10
This briefing, presented by Ellyn Ogden, covers polio eradication strategies, current global epidemiologic status and a summary of general challenges.
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ACIP Guidelines
Updated Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) Regarding Routine Poliovirus Vaccination 07 Aug 10
Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
Poliomyelitis Prevention in the United States 19 May 00
Updated Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
DHB Recommendations
Inactivated Polio Vaccine 25 May 99
Recommendations of the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board (AFEB)
Information Paper
Poliomyelitis and Poliovirus Vaccine PDF 17 Feb 11
Information Paper
Package Insert
Pediarix (GlaxoSmithKline) 01 Apr 12
Package Insert - Vaccine
Kinrix [DTaP-IPV] (GlaxoSmithKline) 01 Mar 12
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Pentacel [DTaP-IPV/Hib] (Sanofi-Pasteur) 01 Jul 11
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Ipol (Sanofi-Pasteur) 01 Dec 05
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GlaxoSmithKline 14 Apr 09
Pentacel
GlaxoSmithKline 26 Jun 08
Kinrix
Whatever Happened to Polio? 11 Apr 05
The National Museum of American History
Toolkit
Polio Eradication: Progress, Challenges, Future Considerations 18 Mar 10
Author: Ellyn Ogden
This briefing, presented by Ellyn Ogden, covers polio eradication strategies, current global epidemiologic status and a summary of general challenges.
VIS
Polio Vaccine: What You Need to Know 08 Nov 11
Vaccine Information Statement (Interim)
Your Baby's First Vaccines; What You Need to Know 18 Sep 08
Vaccine Information Statement
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Serologic Response To Oral Polio Vaccine And Enhanced-Potency Inactivated Polio Vaccines Jan 1988
Author(s): Marshall Mcbean A, Thoms ML, Albrecht P, Cuthie JC, Bernier R
Publication: American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 128, No. 3
Subject: Vaccine-General
Disease: Polio
One-Dose Immunization Against Paralytic Poliomyelitis Using a Noninfectious Vaccine Jan 1984
Author(s): Salk J
Publication: Review of Infectious Diseases vol. 6, Supplement 2
Subject: Vaccine-General
Disease: Polio