Wastewater-based surveillance as a tool for public health action: SARS-CoV-2 and beyond

MD Parkins, BE Lee, N Acosta, M Bautista… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) has undergone dramatic advancement in the context
of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The power and potential of this …

Measuring sex, gender, and sexual orientation: one step to health equity

CH Logie, LLA van der Merwe, A Scheim - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Identity, and Sexual Orientation, 2 was requested by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in
the USA to examine SOGISC measurement for surveys in research, administrative, and …

Emergence of vaccine-derived poliovirus in high-income settings in the absence of oral polio vaccine use

M Hill, AS Bandyopadhyay, AJ Pollard - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Comment 714 www. thelancet. com Vol 400 September 3, 2022 risk of vaccine-associated
paralytic poliomyelitis caused by Sabin 2. 6 Although most countries eliminated Sabinlike …

[HTML][HTML] Emergence of genetically linked vaccine-originated poliovirus type 2 in the absence of oral polio vaccine, Jerusalem, April to July 2022

NS Zuckerman, I Bar-Or, D Sofer, E Bucris… - …, 2022 - eurosurveillance.org
We report an emergence and increase in poliovirus type 2 detection via routine wastewater
surveillance in three non-overlapping regions in the Jerusalem region, Israel, between April …

Re‐emergence of poliovirus in the United States: Considerations and implications

GB Russo, T Goyal, K Tyler, KT Thakur - Annals of neurology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The first case of paralytic poliomyelitis in nearly a decade in the US was discovered in a 20‐
year‐old unvaccinated man from Rockland County, New York, in July 2022, who developed …

[HTML][HTML] Outbreak response strategies with type 2-containing oral poliovirus vaccines

DA Kalkowska, SGF Wassilak, MA Pallansch… - Vaccine, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite exhaustive and fully-financed plans to manage the risks of globally coordinated
cessation of oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) containing type 2 (OPV2) prior to 2016, as of …

One billion doses and WHO prequalification of nOPV2: implications for the global polio situation and beyond

AS Bandyopadhyay, LV Cooper… - PLOS Global Public …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
With the COVID-19 pandemic abating, the only remaining Public Health Emergency of
International Concern is polio [1]. Remarkable progress has been made in reducing the …

The origins and Risk factors for Serotype-2 vaccine-derived Poliovirus emergences in Africa during 2016–2019

EJ Gray, LV Cooper, AS Bandyopadhyay… - The Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Serotype 2 oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV2) can revert to regain wild-type neurovirulence and
spread to cause emergences of vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV2). After its global …

Polio eradication: what kind of world do we want?

KM Thompson - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2022 - thelancet.com
Achieving the 1988 World Health Assembly commitment of global eradication of
poliomyelitis1 will require ending the transmission of all three types (1, 2, and 3) of wild …

Endemic, epidemic and pandemic infections: the roles of natural and acquired herd immunity

DL Stevens, AE Bryant - Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 2023 - journals.lww.com
The global burden of communicable diseases remains high, necessitating continued
pathogen surveillance as well as vaccine development, deployment and continued efficacy …