Population
1 3-year-old Argentinean boy with X-linked hypogammaglobulinemia and no history of polio vaccination.
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
3 years
Authors
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Alerts clinicians to iVDPV risk in antibody-deficient children in Latin America; extends geographic evidence and leaves open eradication strategy refinements.
This case highlights the risk of vaccine-derived poliovirus causing paralytic poliomyelitis in immunodeficient individuals, emphasizing the need to switch from oral to inactivated polio vaccines to achieve global polio eradication.
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