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Nature 435, 881 (16 June 2005) | doi:10.1038/435881b; Published online 15 June 2005

Don't drop current vaccine until we have new ones

Vadim I. Agol1, Konstantin Chumakov2, Ellie Ehrenfeld3 & Eckard Wimmer4

  1. M. P. Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow Region 142782, Russia
  2. Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 1401 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, USA
  3. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
  4. Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, USA

David L. Heymann and colleagues, from the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a global call for new poliovirus vaccines in their recent Commentary article (Nature 434, 699; 2005).

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