Beyond the bombs: cancer risks of low-dose medical radiation.
Beyond the bombs: cancer risks of low-dose medical radiation.
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DOI:
10.1016/s0140-6736(12)60897-6
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发表时间:
2012-08-04
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168.9
通讯作者:
Einstein, Andrew J.
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Einstein, Andrew J.
encouragement for eradication efforts in the remaining three countries that have never eradicated the disease. It shows the value of careful examination of the effect of vaccination and the means to optimise the effects of vaccination programmes. O’Reilly and colleagues1 estimate the per-dose effectiveness of monovalent OPV to have been 34· 5%(95% CI 16· 1–48· 9) as compared with 23· 4%(10· 4–34· 6) for bivalent OPV and 12· 5%(5· 6–18· 8) for trivalent OPV, indicating that, where monovalent OPV and bivalent OPV are given in Afghanistan and Pakistan, their effect is consistent with the findings from studies in India where they played such a big part in eradication. However, the number of poliomyelitis cases in these countries has risen in the past few years, suggesting that vaccines are not being delivered. Given the circumstances, this finding might not be surprising but it does imply that if the vaccine could be given, poliomyelitis could be eradicated. There is one additional matter: given that nobody has been infected with wild type 2 poliomyelitis this century, continued inclusion of the type 2 component in vaccines might seem strange. The problem with not including the type 2 component and using bivalent OPV routinely is that the vaccine strains can revert to transmissible forms to cause circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus; 9 type 2 circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus is the most common and there have been an uncomfortable number of outbreaks as a result. 10 Using a vaccine that does not include the type 2 component is therefore probably risky. Conversely, to immunise against a disease that is only caused by the vaccine seems unsustainable. The last stages of poliomyelitis eradication are interesting and highlight important issues in virus eradication, 10 partly because of the silent nature of most infections, which makes the last cases hard to identify, and partly because of the risks that vaccines based on growth of the virus pose, at however low a level and whether inactivated or live. 9–12 The use of suitable vaccines given appropriately is key to the eradication of the last cases attributable to wild type poliovirus but, given what has happened in India, worldwide eradication is possible.