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. 2021 Jan 2;397(10268):39–50. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32541-1

Table 2.

Participants reporting solicited adverse events within 7 days of vaccination, and unsolicited adverse events within 28 days, of each vaccination in all vaccinated participants

Historical control study Novel OPV2 study—OPV vaccinated
Novel OPV2 study—IPV vaccinated
Monovalent OPV2, groups 1 and 2 Novel OPV2-c1, groups 1 and 2 Novel OPV2-c2, groups 3 and 4 Novel OPV2-c1, group 5 Novel OPV2-c2, group 6 Placebo, group 7
Solicited systemic adverse events after dose 1
N 100 100 100 17 16 17
Any 62 (62%) 71 (71%) 74 (74%) 16 (94%) 13 (81%) 15 (88%)
Mild 47 (47%) 45 (45%) 60 (60%) 15 (88%) 12 (75%) 14 (82%)
Moderate 11 (11%) 23 (23%) 12 (12%) 4 (24%) 7 (44%) 5 (29%)
Severe 4 (4%) 3 (3%) 2 (2%) 1 (6%) 0 2 (12%)
Solicited systemic adverse events after dose 2
N* 50 49 49 17 15 16
Any 18 (36%) 26 (53%) 21 (43%) 11 (65%) 9 (60%) 12 (75%)
Mild 10 (20%) 18 (37%) 14 (29%) 8 (47%) 3 (20%) 7 (44%)
Moderate 7 (14%) 8 (16%) 6 (12%) 3 (18%) 5 (33%) 5 (31%)
Severe 1 (2%) 0 1 (2%) 0 1 (7%) 0
Unsolicited adverse events after dose 1
N 100 100 100 17 16 17
Any 65 (65%) 68 (68%) 69 (69%) 13 (76%) 12 (75%) 16 (94%)
Probably or possibly related 28 (28%) 19 (19%) 19 (19%) 1 (6%) 2 (13%) 1 (6%)
Severe 13 (13%) 18 (18%) 7 (7%) 3 (18%) 1 (6%) 7 (41%)
Unsolicited adverse events after dose 2
N* 50 49 49 17 15 16
Any 26 (52%) 33 (67%) 33 (67%) 11 (65%) 12 (80%) 14 (88%)
Probably or possibly related 7 (7%) 5 (10%) 7 (14%) 1 (6%) 1 (7%) 0
Severe 5 (10%) 6 (12%) 5 (10%) 1 (6%) 4 (27%) 5 (31%)

Data are n (%) unless otherwise stated. c1=candidate 1. c2=candidate 2. IPV=inactivated poliovirus vaccine. OPV=oral poliovirus vaccine. OPV2=type 2 OPV.

*

Only includes two-dose groups.