Three cases of paralytic poliomyelitis a
Three cases of paralytic poliomyelitis associated with type 3 vaccine poliovirus strains in Bulgaria
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Neli Korsun; Mira Kojouharova; Nadezhda Vladimirova; Lucia Fiore; Ivan Litvinenk
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Article
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2009
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) can cause, in extremely rare cases vaccine‐associated paralytic poliomyelitis in recipients, or contacts of vaccinees. Three cases of vaccine‐associated paralytic poliomyelitis (two contacts and one recipient) occurred in the Bourgas region of Bulgaria in t