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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 2

Polio vaccination coverage in children <1 y of age, Guatemala, 2017–2020*

Year Dose Villa Nueva
 San Juan Sacatepequez
National
Population No. (%) vaccinated Population No. (%) vaccinated Population No. (%) vaccinated
2017 Polio 3 8,339 6,282 (75.3) 6,159 3,824 (62.1) 381,396 342,437 (89.8)
2018 Polio 3 8,296 6,055 (73.0) 6,141 3,942 (64.2) 382,841 324,761 (84.8)
2019 Polio 3 7,252 5,495 (75.8) 5,856 4,056 (69.3) 366,448 320,963 (87.6)
2020 Polio 3 6,671 5,570 (83.5) 5,513 4,252 (77.1) 340,876 304,898 (89.4)
2019 bOPV 57,979 54,942 (94.8) 41,639 37,969 (91.2) 2,649,334 2,463,881 (93.0)

*The 2019 nationwide bOPV campaign targeted children 6 mo to <7 y of age. Polio 3 indicates a third dose of oral or injectable polio-containing vaccine. bOPV, bivalent oral poliovirus vaccine. Source: National Immunization Program, Guatemala Ministry of Health.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

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