Why the study?
Updated guidance was needed to address poliomyelitis control issues in the United States, including risk situations and immunization strategies for adults and children.
Provides updated recommendations for poliomyelitis prevention, emphasizing oral polio vaccine for children and clarifying inactivated polio vaccine use in adults.
Prioritizes oral polio vaccine for children’s primary immunization; extends prior guidance by clarifying inactivated vaccine use in adults.
This revised Immunization Practices Advisory Committee recommendation on poliomyelitis prevention addresses issues important in poliomyelitis control in the United States today. Specifically, situations that constitute increased risk are defined, and alternatives for protection are outlined. Recommendations for immunization of adults are presented, clarifying the role of inactivated polio vaccine in immunizing adults. These recommendations also address the problems of interrupted immunization schedules and completion of primary immunization. Oral polio vaccine remains the vaccine of choice for primary immunization of children.
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A 1982 study conducted a review in Poliomyelitis. Poliomyelitis immunization (Oral and Inactivated polio vaccines) was evaluated. The Immunization Practices Advisory Committee recommends oral polio vaccine as the vaccine of choice for primary immunization of children and clarifies the role of inactivated polio vaccine for adults.
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