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Volume 29, Number 8—August 2023
Synopsis

Response to Vaccine-Derived Polioviruses Detected through Environmental Surveillance, Guatemala, 2019

Rodrigo Rodríguez1, Elisa Juárez1, 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 RondyComments to Author 
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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Table 1

Surveillance indicators for acute faccid paralysis, Guatemala, 2017–2020*

Year No. reported AFP cases Incidence rate per 100,000 children <15 y Adequate sample collected, no. (%) Investigation within 48 h, no. (%)
Expected value 55 1.0 ≥80% ≥80%
2017 46 0.7 29 (63) NA
2018 59 0.9 50 (85) 11 (19)
2019 72 1.1 55 (77) 49 (68)
2020 37 0.6 30 (81) 27 (73)

*Information not systematically collected before 2018. Source: Department of Epidemiology, Guatemalan Ministry of Health. NA, not available.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

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