Cochrane · systematic review · CD011260

Sequential inactivated (IPV) and live oral (OPV) poliovirus vaccines for preventing poliomyelitis

Ciapponi, A, Bardach, A, Rey Ares, L, et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · 2019 · Cochrane Library

SoF tableOnly the outcomes this review put in its Summary of Findings table are listed (the Cochrane Handbook caps them at about seven per comparison). Its other analyses are not shown here.
Questions
21
current version
GRADE rated
13
No studies
0
Included studies
NR
No studies 0 · 0%Ungraded 8 · 38.1%Very low 3 · 14.3%Low 6 · 28.6%Moderate 4 · 19%High 0 · 0%

Ungraded means an effect was reported without a GRADE rating; it is not a gap. No studies means the review found nothing to answer the question. The six categories are a display order, not a score.

Questions and results

IPV‐OPV compared to OPV for preventing poliomyelitis

Population: infants
7 questions
OutcomeEffectEvidenceStatus / GRADE
Paralytic wild polio cases (Change in slope at 3 years)
IPV‐OPV vs OPV
no estimate extracted1 participantsVery low
Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency
Vaccine‐associated paralytic polio (VAPP) cases (Range of
IPV‐OPV vs OPV
no estimate extracted1 participantsLow
Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency
Persons with protective humoral response (Range of
IPV‐OPV vs OPV
RR 1 [0.99, 1.01]12 studies · 3189 participantsModerate
Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency
Neutralising antibodies with 2 IPV doses Geometric mean titres (GMT) (Range of
IPV‐OPV vs OPV
no estimate extracted3 studies · 795 participantsLow
Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency
Persons with polio faecal excretion after OPV challenge (Range of
IPV‐OPV vs OPV
RR 2.24 [0.7, 7.12]2 studies · 916 participantsLow
Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency
Vaccination coverage (
IPV‐OPV vs OPV
RR 1.01 [0.96, 1.06]1 participantsLow
Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency
Serious adverse events (classified by MedDRA) (Range of
IPV‐OPV vs OPV
RR 0.88 [0.46, 1.7]4 studies · 1948 participantsLow
Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency

IPV‐OPV compared to IPV for preventing poliomyelitis

Population: infants
7 questions
OutcomeEffectEvidenceStatus / GRADE
Paralytic wild polio cases at 4 years (Change level from IPV‐OPV to IPV)
IPV‐OPV vs IPV
no estimate extracted1 participantsVery low
Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency
Vaccine‐associated paralytic polio cases
IPV‐OPV vs IPV
no estimate extracted0 studies · 0 participantsUngraded
Persons with protective humoral response (Range of
IPV‐OPV vs IPV
RR 1 [0.99, 1.01]10 studies · 2858 participantsModerate
Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency
Neutralising antibodies with 2 IPV doses Geometric mean titres (
IPV‐OPV vs IPV
no estimate extracted2 studies · 363 participantsModerate
Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency
Persons with faecal polio excretion after OPV challenge (Range of
IPV‐OPV vs IPV
RR 0.52 [0.14, 1.97]2 studies · 822 participantsVery low
Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency
Vaccination coverage
IPV‐OPV vs IPV
no estimate extracted0 studies · 0 participantsUngraded
Serious adverse events (≥ 1 symptom related to study drug or not) (Range of
IPV‐OPV vs IPV
RR 0.92 [0.6, 1.43]2 studies · 1063 participantsLow
Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency

IPV(3)‐OPV compared to IPV(2)‐OPV for preventing poliomyelitis

Population: preventing poliomyelitis
7 questions
OutcomeEffectEvidenceStatus / GRADE
Paralytic polio
IPV(3)‐OPV vs IPV(2)‐OPV
no estimate extracted0 studies · 0 participantsUngraded
VAPP cases
IPV(3)‐OPV vs IPV(2)‐OPV
no estimate extracted0 studies · 0 participantsUngraded
Persons with protective humoral response (
IPV(3)‐OPV vs IPV(2)‐OPV
RR 0.98 [0.93, 1.03]1 study · 137 participantsModerate
Downgraded: imprecision
Neutralising antibodies
IPV(3)‐OPV vs IPV(2)‐OPV
no estimate extracted0 studies · 0 participantsUngraded
Persons with faecal excretion after OPV challenge
IPV(3)‐OPV vs IPV(2)‐OPV
no estimate extracted0 studies · 0 participantsUngraded
Vaccination coverage
IPV(3)‐OPV vs IPV(2)‐OPV
no estimate extracted0 studies · 0 participantsUngraded
Serious adverse events
IPV(3)‐OPV vs IPV(2)‐OPV
no estimate extracted0 studies · 0 participantsUngraded