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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 Bessaud2Comments to Author , and Ionela Gouandjika-Vasilache2
Author affiliations: Institut Pasteur, Paris, France (M.-L. Joffret, M. Vignuzzi, M. Bessaud); Institut Pasteur, Bangui, Central African Republic (J.W. Doté, I. Gouandjika-Vasilache); World Health Organization African Region Office, Brazzaville, Congo (N. Gumede)

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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.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

2These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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