Can earlier BCG-Japan and OPV vaccination reduce early infant mortality? A cluster-randomised trial in Guinea-Bissau

SM Thysen, I da Silva Borges, J Martins… - BMJ Global …, 2024 - gh.bmj.com
birth, BCG vaccine and the oral polio vaccine (OPV), may have reduced early infant mortality
from causes other than tuberculosis and polio. … at birth, and vaccines scheduled at birth are …

National immunization campaigns with oral polio vaccine may reduce all-cause mortality: an analysis of 13 years of demographic surveillance data from an urban …

A Andersen, AB Fisker, S Nielsen… - Clinical Infectious …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… -randomized trials of the overall effect of OPV campaigns on child survival. Second, OPV0
is often not used and since we have found OPV0 to be associated with better infant survival, …

Oral polio vaccine to mitigate the risk of illness and mortality during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: a cluster-randomized trial in Guinea-Bissau

AB Fisker, JSD Martins, LM Nanque… - Open forum …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
randomized trials of OPV given at birth in Guinea-Bissau, OPV reduced early child mortality
… In this cluster-randomized trial, we found no overall positive effect of OPV on severe …

… oral polio vaccine (OPV) after defeating poliomyelitis in low-and middle-income countries: harmful unintended consequences? Review of the nonspecific effects of …

P Aaby, S Nielsen, AB Fisker… - Open Forum …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
randomized controlled trial, BCG + OPV0 vs BCG + no OPV0 was associated with 32% (95%
CI, 0–55%) lower infant mortality… and child mortality stops declining, we need to study ways …

Oral polio vaccine campaigns may reduce the risk of death from respiratory infections

S Nielsen, HM Sujan, CS Benn, P Aaby, SMA Hanifi - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
… before-campaign for children only eligible for the oral polio vaccine (OPV) by cause of death.
Analysis from 29 days to 35 months of age among children within the Chakaria HDSS from …

Reduced mortality after oral polio vaccination and increased mortality after diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccination in children in a low-income setting

CB Øland, SW Mogensen, A Rodrigues, CS Benn… - Clinical Therapeutics, 2021 - Elsevier
… -Bissau, OPV at birth reduced infant mortality by 32% (range, … They studied children who
received oral polio vaccine in the … mortality beyond the direct attributable effect of the vaccine. …

… of novel oral poliovirus vaccine type 2 administered concomitantly with bivalent oral poliovirus vaccine: an open-label, non-inferiority, randomised, controlled trial

AL Wilkinson, K Zaman, M Hoque… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2023 - thelancet.com
… , non-inferiority, randomised, controlled trial is the first study to … We showed that, among
poliovirus vaccine-naive infants, concomitant … Randomised trial of alternative formulations of oral

Can earlier BCG vaccination reduce early infant mortality? A randomised trial

SM Thysen, AB Fisker, CS Benn, P Aaby, AKG Jensen - gh.bmj.com
… Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine (BCG) and oral polio vaccine (OPV) at birth, pentavalent
… In the present randomised trial, we aim to study the effect of BCG and OPV vaccinations

… sequential schedules with Sabin inactivated poliovirus vaccine and bivalent oral poliovirus vaccine in Zhejiang, China: an open-label, randomised, controlled trial

H He, Y Wang, X Deng, C Yue, X Tang, Y Li… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2020 - thelancet.com
… to six vaccine doses with different sequential combinations of bivalent oral poliovirus vaccine
(bOPV), trivalent oral polioviruspoliovirus vaccine in Latin American infants: an open-label …

Maximising the lessons learned from trial data after emergency use listing of a novel oral polio vaccine

LM Nanque, AB Fisker - The Lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
… In the randomised controlled trial from Guinea-Bissau, the effect was stronger for boys
than for girls. … The effect of oral polio vaccine at birth on infant mortality: a randomized trial. …