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Pediatr Infect Dis J
; 22(6): 570-2, 2003 Jun.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-12828159
RESUMO
We describe a case of poliomyelitis in a 3-year-old Argentinean boy with X-linked hypogammaglobulinemia. The child had no history of polio vaccination, but a poliovirus isolated from a stool sample had 97.2% genetic similarity to the Sabin 1 vaccine strain. According to the WHO definition, this is the first case reported of a vaccine-derived poliovirus infection recorded in continental Latin America.