Vaccine
Volume 28, Issue 43  pp. 6943-7136 (8 October 2010)

Meeting Report
Polio vaccines and polio immunization in the pre-eradication era: WHO position paper—Recommendations
Pages 6943-6944
World Health Organization Department of Immunization Vaccines and Biologicals 20, Avenue Appia 1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland WHO Publication

Abstract
This article presents the WHO recommendations on the use of polio vaccines excerpted from the recently published Polio vaccines and polio immunization in the pre-eradication era: WHO position paper. This document replaces the WHO position paper entitled Introduction of inactivated poliovirus vaccine into oral poliovirus vaccine-using countries published in the Weekly Epidemiological Record in July 2003. Footnotes to this paper provide a limited number of core references; their abstracts as well as a more comprehensive list of references may be found at http://www.who.int/immunization/documents/positionpapers/en/index.html. Grading tables which assess the quality of scientific evidence for key conclusions are also available through this link and are referenced in the position paper.