Vaccine-Derived Polioviruses: Is It Time to Stop Using the Word “Rare”?

Dowdle, Walter
Kew, Olen

¹Task Force for Child Survival and Development, Decatur, and
²Division of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.

Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Walter Dowdle, Task Force for Child Survival and Development, 750 Commerce Dr., Ste. 400, Decatur, GA 30030 ([email protected]).

Received 19 April 2006; accepted 19 April 2006.

(See the article by Liang et al, on pages 545-51.).

Potential conflicts of interest: none reported.

Journal of Infectious Diseases 194(5):p 539-541, September 1, 2006. | DOI: 10.1086/506368