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Case Reports
. 2021 Dec;26(50):2101068.
doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.50.2101068.

An imported case of vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2, Spain in the context of the ongoing polio Public Health Emergency of International Concern, September 2021

María Dolores Chirlaque López  1   2   3 , María Cabrerizo  3   4 , Bernardo R Guzmán Herrador  5 , Josefa Masa-Calles  3   6 , María Ester Alarcón-Linares  1 , Ana Allende  7 , Esteban Aznar Cano  5 , María Isabel Barranco Boada  1 , Elena Cantero Gudino  8 , Sonia Fernández-Balbuena  5 , Ana Fernández Dueñas  8 , María Dolores Fernández-García  4 , Laura García Hernández  9 , Visitación García Ortúzar  10 , Noemí López-Perea  3   6 , Eduardo Martínez-Salcedo  11   2 , Antonio Moreno-Docón  12   2 , María Ordobás Gavín  13 , Inmaculada Rodero Garduño  13 , Maria José Sierra Moros  14   5 , Fernando Simón Soria  3   5 , Aurora Limia Sánchez  8 , Berta Suárez Rodríguez  5
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An imported case of vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2, Spain in the context of the ongoing polio Public Health Emergency of International Concern, September 2021

María Dolores Chirlaque López et al. Euro Surveill. 2021 Dec.

Abstract

The monthly retrospective search for unreported acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) cases conducted as a complementary component of the Spanish AFP surveillance system identified a case of AFP in a child admitted in Spain from Senegal during August 2021. Vaccine-derived poliovirus 2 was identified in the stool in September 2021. We present public health implications and response undertaken within the framework of the National Action Plan for Polio Eradication and the Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

Keywords: Acute Flaccid Paralysis; Poliovirus; eradication; public health emergency of international concern; vaccine-derived poliovirus.

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