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Polio immunity and the impact of mass immunization campaigns in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Review of Poliovirus Transmission and Economic Modeling to Support Global Polio Eradication: 2020-2024.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Pooled it
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- Gut microbiome associations with poliovirus vaccine seroconversion in children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Re-emergence of vaccine-derived polio in the demographic Republic of Congo: Causes and consequences.New microbes and new infections · 2024Review
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- Exploring the path to polio eradication: insights from consecutive seroprevalence surveys among Pakistani children.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Vaccine-derived poliovirus serotype 2 outbreaks and response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2017-2021.Vaccine · 2023Article
- Performance of Immunoglobulin G Serology on Finger Prick Capillary Dried Blood Spot Samples to Detect a SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Response.Microbiology spectrum · 2022Article
- Poliovirus immunity among adults in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a cross-sectional serosurvey.BMC infectious diseases · 2022Article
- Lessons learned from the polio eradication initiative in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia: analysis of implementation barriers and strategies.BMC public health · 2020Article
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- Review of poliovirus modeling performed from 2000 to 2019 to support global polio eradication.Expert review of vaccines · 2020Review
- Assessment of immunity to polio among Rohingya children in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 2018: A cross-sectional survey.PLoS medicine · 2020Article
- Genetic landscape and macro-evolution of co-circulating Coxsackieviruses A and Vaccine-derived Polioviruses in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2008-2013.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2019Article
- Changes in childhood vaccination coverage over time in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.PloS one · 2019Article
- Assessment of knowledge and attitude among postnatal mothers towards childhood vaccination in Malaysia.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn order to prevent outbreaks from wild and vaccine-derived poliovirus, maintenance of population immunity in non-endemic countries is critical.
methodsWe estimated population seroprevalence using dried blood spots collected from 4893 children 6-59months olds in the 2013-2014 Demographic and Health Survey in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
resultsPopulation immunity was 81%, 90%, and 70% for poliovirus types 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Among 6-59-month-old children, 78% reported at least one dose of polio in routine immunization, while only 15% had three doses documented on vaccination cards. All children in the study had been eligible for at least two trivalent oral polio vaccine campaigns at the time of enrollment; additional immunization campaigns seroconverted 5.0%, 14%, and 5.5% of non-immune children per-campaign for types 1, 2, and 3, respectively, averaged over relevant campaigns for each serotype.
conclusionsOverall polio immunity was high at the time of the study, though pockets of low immunity cannot be ruled out. The DRC still relies on supplementary immunization campaigns, and this report stresses the importance of the quality and coverage of those campaigns over their quantity, as well as the importance of routine immunization.
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