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Oral Polio Vaccine to Mitigate the Risk of Illness and Mortality During the Coronavirus Disease 2019...

Oral Polio Vaccine to Mitigate the Risk of Illness and Mortality During the Coronavirus Disease 2019...

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Oral Polio Vaccine to Mitigate the Risk of Illness and Mortality During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in Guinea-Bissau

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Full title

Oral Polio Vaccine to Mitigate the Risk of Illness and Mortality During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in Guinea-Bissau

Publisher

US: Oxford University Press

Journal title

Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2022-09, Vol.9 (9), p.ofac470-ofac470

Language

English

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Publisher

US: Oxford University Press

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Contents

Abstract
Background
Oral polio vaccine (OPV) may improve resistance to non-polio-infections. We tested whether OPV reduced the risk of illness and mortality before coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines were available.
Methods
During the early COVID-19 pandemic, houses in urban Guinea-Bissau were randomized 1:1 to intervention or...

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Full title

Oral Polio Vaccine to Mitigate the Risk of Illness and Mortality During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in Guinea-Bissau

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2721258847

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2721258847

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ISSN

2328-8957

E-ISSN

2328-8957

DOI

10.1093/ofid/ofac470

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