The origins and risk factors for serotype-2 vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV2) emergences in Africa during 2016-2019
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Author(s)
Gray, Elizabeth
Cooper, Laura
Bandyopadhyay, Ananda
Blake, Isobel
Grassly, Nicholas
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
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 withdrawal from routine immunization in 2016, outbreak response use has created a cycle of VDPV2 emergences that threaten eradication. We implemented a hierarchical model based on VP1 region genetic divergence, time, and location to attribute emergences to campaigns and identify risk factors. We found that a 10 percentage point increase in population immunity in children younger than 5 years at the campaign time and location corresponds to a 18.0% decrease (95% credible interval [CrI], 6.3%–28%) in per-campaign relative risk, and that campaign size is associated with emergence risk (relative risk scaling with population size to a power of 0.80; 95% CrI, .50–1.10). Our results imply how Sabin OPV2 can be used alongside the genetically stable but supply-limited novel OPV2 (listed for emergency use in November 2020) to minimize emergence risk.
Date Issued
2023-07-01
Date Acceptance
2023-01-10
Citation
Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023, 228 (1), pp.80-88
ISSN
0022-1899
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Start Page
80
End Page
88
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Infectious Diseases
Volume
228
Issue
1
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© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiad004/6984902
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2023-01-11