Paralytic poliomyelitis associated with live oral poliomyelitis vaccine in child with HIV infection in Zimbabwe: case report
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Paralytic poliomyelitis associated with live oral poliomyelitis vaccine in child with HIV infection in Zimbabwe: case report.
OBJECTIVE To describe a complication of oral vaccination with live, attenuated poliomyelitis virus in a child infected with HIV. DESIGN Case report. SETTING Teaching hospital in Harare, Zimbabwe. SUBJECTS A boy of 41/2 years and his mother. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Results of clinical and laboratory investigations. RESULTS Two weeks after receiving the second dose of oral poliomyelitis v...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.318.7187.841