Population
14-month-old boy from Morocco with residual paralysis and major histocompatibility class II…
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
6 months for the index patient; up to 284 days for contacts
Authors
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VDPV persistence with household transmission in this case supports surveillance in at-risk groups; leaves open generalizability and optimal protocols pending larger studies.
Vaccine-derived poliovirus can cause fatal paralytic disease in immunocompromised patients and spread to immunocompetent contacts, highlighting the need for active surveillance.
Avellón et al. (2008) studied this question.
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