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SLIPE statement: Increasing polio coverage with safer vaccines: a pressing need in Latin America

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  • Luiza Falleiros-Arlant,
  • María L Ávila-Agüero,
  • José Brea-del Castillo,
  • Ángela Gentile,
  • Jaime R Torres,
  • Roberto Debbag
Luiza Falleiros-Arlant
Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Metropolitana de Santos. São Paulo, Brasil
María L Ávila-Agüero
2Servicio de Infectología, Hospital Nacional de Niños ‘Dr. Carlos Sáenz Herrera’, San José, Costa Rica
José Brea-del Castillo
3Centro Médico UCE, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana
Ángela Gentile
Hospital de Niños Ricardo Gutiérrez, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jaime R Torres
Universidad Central de Venezuela
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Roberto Debbag
Sociedad Latinoamericana de Infectología Pediátrica,
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Published 2022-11-27

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Falleiros-Arlant L, Ávila-Agüero ML, Brea-del Castillo J, Gentile Ángela, Torres JR, Debbag R. SLIPE statement: Increasing polio coverage with safer vaccines: a pressing need in Latin America. Rev. Chilena. Infectol. [Internet]. 2022 Nov. 27 [cited 2025 Nov. 26];39(5). Available from: https://revinf.cl/index.php/revinf/article/view/1604

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Abstract

Given the actual risk of poliomyelitis outbreaks in the region due to poliovirus derived from the Sabin vaccine or the importation of wild poliovirus, the Latin American Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases commissioned an ad hoc group of experts from the institution's Vaccines and Biologicals Committee, to draft an official position paper on the urgent need to increase immunization levels against the disease in the region and incorporate inactivated polio vaccine exclusive schedules in all national immunization programs. This publication discusses the main conclusions and recommendations generated as a result of such activity
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