Volume 27, Number 2—February 2021
Dispatch
Vaccine-Derived Polioviruses, Central African Republic, 2019
Marie-Line Joffret1, Joël Wilfried Doté1, Nicksy Gumede, Marco Vignuzzi, Maël Bessaud2
, and Ionela Gouandjika-Vasilache2
, and Ionela Gouandjika-Vasilache2
Figure 1
![Central African Republic. Shading indicates districts where VDPV-2s were detected May–December 2019: triangles indicate districts where environmental surveillance has been implemented; numbers indicate total numbers of VDPVs; numbers in parentheses indicate number of confirmed poliomyelitis cases, letters A–L indicate VDPV lineages (based on the viral capsid protein 1–encoding region [Figure 2, panel A]). VDPV-2, type 2 vaccine-derived polioviruses.](/eid/images/20-3173-F1.jpg "Figure 1. Central African Republic. Shading indicates districts where VDPV-2s were detected May–December 2019: triangles indicate districts where environmental surveillance has been implemented; numbers indicate total numbers of VDPVs; numbers in parentheses indicate number of confirmed poliomyelitis cases, letters A–L indicate VDPV lineages (based on the viral capsid protein 1–encoding region [Figure 2, panel A]). VDPV-2, type 2 vaccine-derived polioviruses.")
Figure 1. Central African Republic. Shading indicates districts where VDPV-2s were detected May–December 2019: triangles indicate districts where environmental surveillance has been implemented; numbers indicate total numbers of VDPVs; numbers in parentheses indicate number of confirmed poliomyelitis cases, letters A–L indicate VDPV lineages (based on the viral capsid protein 1–encoding region [Figure 2, panel A]). VDPV-2, type 2 vaccine-derived polioviruses.
1These first authors contributed equally to this article.
2These senior authors contributed equally to this article.
Page created: December 07, 2020
Page updated: January 24, 2021
Page reviewed: January 24, 2021
The conclusions, findings, and opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. Use of trade names is for identification only and does not imply endorsement by any of the groups named above.
Content Credential
