poliovirus vaccine live oral

poliovirus vaccine live oral
(OPV) a live virus vaccine containing attenuated poliovirus, types I, II, and III, grown in monkey kidney cell tissue culture and used for immunization against poliomyelitis; administered orally. OPV induces both humoral and intestinal immunity and is excreted in the feces for at least several weeks after immunization. Because it can cause vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis in those vaccinated and also their contacts, it is used only under special circumstances or in countries in which wild polioviruses have not been eradicated. OPV should not be administered to immunocompromised individuals or their household contacts. Called also Sabin v.

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