Response to Vaccine-Derived Polioviruses Detected through Environmental Surveillance, Guatemala, 2019
Rodrigo Rodríguez
1, Elisa Juárez
1, Concepción F. Estívariz, Coralia Cajas, Gloria Rey-Benito, María Olga Bautista Amézquita, Stacey Jeffries Miles, Oscar Orantes, María Cecilia Freire, Ana-Elena Chévez, Leticia Castillo Signor, Leanna Sayyad, Claudia Jarquin, Emilia Cain, Andrea Patricia Villalobos Rodríguez, Linda Mendoza, Carlos A. Ovando, Haroldo de Jesús Barillas Mayorga, Ericka Gaitán, Antonio Paredes, Hanen Belgasmi-Allen, Lorena Gobern, and Marc Rondy
Author affiliations: Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA (R. Rodríguez, G. Rey-Benito, M.C. Freire, A.-E. Chévez,, E. Cain, A.P. Villalobos Rodríguez); Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance, Guatemala City, Guatemala (E. Juárez, M.O. Bautista Amézquita, L. Castillo Signor, L. Mendoza, C.A. Ovando, H. de J. Barillas Mayorga, E. Gaitán, A. Paredes, L. Gobern); US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (C.F. Estívariz, S.J. Miles, L. Sayyad, H. Belgasmi-Allen); Pan American Health Organization, Guatemala
City (C. Cajas, O. Orantes, C. Jarquin, M. Rondy); Poliovirus Regional Reference Laboratory, Malbrán Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina (M.C. Freire); National Health Laboratory, Guatemala City (L. Mendoza)
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Figure. Timeline of MoH VDPV detection response activities and OBRA evaluation, Guatemala, 2018–2022.1 Green represents environmental surveillance-related activities. Blue represents MoH response activities. Red represents supplementary immunization campaign. Yellow represents OBRA. MoH, Guatemala Ministry of Health; OBRA, Poliovirus Outbreak Response Assessment; VDPV, vaccine-derived polioviruses.
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