Available and upcoming publications

• Progress report on global eradication of poliomyelitis. 
  Progress report by the GPEI secretariat to the 128th Session of the Executive Board of the World Health Assembly (January 2011). [pdf] 

  
  
• Sutter R et al. Immunogenicity of bivalent type 1 and 3 oral poliovirus vaccine: a randomised, double-blind, controlled trial.
  Lancet 2010;376:1682-88. 
  
  
• Tebbens RD et al. The Economic analysis of the global polio eradication initiative.
  Vaccine 2010, doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.10.25 [pdf]. 
  
  
• Mohammed AJ et al. Fractional Doses of Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine in Oman.
  N Engl J Med 2010;362:2351-9. 
  
  
• Jenkins HE et al. Implications of a Circulating Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus in Nigeria.
  N Engl J Med 2010;362:2360-9. 
  
  
• Resik S et al. Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial of Fractional Doses of Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine Administered Intradermally by Needle-free Device in Cuba.
  The Journal of Infectious Diseases 2010: 201(9):1344-1352. 
  
  
• Polio vaccines and polio immunization in the pre-eradiation era: WHO position paper.
  Weekly Epidemiological Record. No. 23,2010, 85, 213-228. [pdf]
  
  
• Outbreaks following importations of wild poliovirus into countries of the WHO African, European and South-East Asian Regions: January 2009 - September 2010.
  Weekly Epidemiological Record. Vol 85, 45 (pp 445-452). [pdf]   
  
  
• Health conditions for travellers to Saudi Arabia for the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj).
  Weekly Epidemiological Record. Vol 85, 43(pp 425-436). [pdf]  
  
  
• Performance of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance and incidence of poliomyelitis, 2010. Completion of national laboratory inventories of wild poliovirus containment: WHO Region of the Americas, March 2010.
  Weekly Epidemiological Record. Vol 85, 37 (pp 329-336). [pdf]