Polio vaccination coverage and seroprevalence of poliovirus antibodies after the introduction of inactivated poliovirus vaccines for routine immunization in Japan

• Published in: Vaccine Vol. 37; no. 14; pp. 1964 - 1971
• Main Authors: Satoh, Hiroshi, Tanaka-Taya, Keiko, Shimizu, Hiroyuki, Goto, Akiko, Tanaka, Shizuka, Nakano, Tsuyoshi, Hotta, Chiemi, Okazaki, Terue, Itamochi, Masae, Ito, Miyabi, Okamoto-Nakagawa, Reiko, Yamashita, Yasutaka, Arai, Satoru, Okuno, Hideo, Morino, Saeko, Oishi, Kazunori
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier Ltd 28.03.2019; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Age; Allergy and Immunology; Antibodies; Antigens; Children; Combined vaccines; Diphtheria; Enterovirus C; Epidemiology; geometry; Health surveillance; Immunization; Immunoglobulins; Japan; Laboratories; monitoring; Parents; Pertussis; Polio; Poliomyelitis; Public health; risk; Routine immunization; Sabin-derived inactivated poliovirus vaccine; Serology; Seroprevalence; Tetanus; vaccination; Vaccination coverage; Vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis; Vaccines; Whooping cough; Japan; cIPV; DTaP-cIPV; NESVPD; VAPP; GMTs; Polio; sIPV; AFP; CIs; IPV; Seroprevalence; Routine immunization; Vaccination coverage; OPV; DTaP-sIPV; Sabin-derived inactivated poliovirus vaccine; oral poliovirus vaccine; vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis; Sabin-derived inactivated poliovirus vaccine combined with diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis vaccine; geometric mean titers; conventional inactivated poliovirus vaccine; inactivated poliovirus vaccine; conventional inactivated poliovirus vaccine combined with diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis vaccine; National Epidemiological Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases; acute flaccid paralysis; confidence intervals

•Sabin-derived IPV was introduced to routine immunization in Japan in 2012.•Seroprevalence of poliovirus antibody was examined after IPV introduction in Japan.•Polio vaccination coverage in children remained high even after IPV introduction.•Seropositivity rates for poliovirus in children increased...