A major component of the strategy aimed at worldwide eradication of polio advanced by the World Health Organization (WHO) is based on the replacement of oral polio vaccine (OPV) with IPV; however, IPV is not efficient in preventing person-to-person poliovirus transmission, particularly in settings of poor hygiene, due to limited impact on intestinal mucosal immunity compared to OPV. The addition of an adjuvant, in particular one that may direct the response towards mucosal homing may offset that deficiency.~In this study, the safety and tolerability of IPV co-administered with dmLT will be assessed, as well as whether co-administration of dmLT with IPV enhances mucosal responses to polioviruses types 1, 2, and 3 in comparison with administration of IPV alone and provides greater mucosal immunity, assessed following oral bOPV challenge. The positive control arm (bOPV) is included in order to confirm the level of shedding observable following a dose of an oral vaccine known to develop intestinal immunity.
In this study, the safety and tolerability of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) co-administered with dmLT will be assessed, as well as whether co-administration of dmLT with IPV enhances mucosal responses compared to those with IPV alone.