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. 2023 Feb;28(5):2300049.
doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.5.2300049.

Wild poliovirus type 3 (WPV3)-shedding event following detection in environmental surveillance of poliovirus essential facilities, the Netherlands, November 2022 to January 2023

Erwin Duizer  1 , Wilhelmina Lm Ruijs  1 , A D Putri Hintaran  2   1 , Mariska C Hafkamp  1 , Margreet van der Veer  3 , Margreet Jm Te Wierik  1
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Wild poliovirus type 3 (WPV3)-shedding event following detection in environmental surveillance of poliovirus essential facilities, the Netherlands, November 2022 to January 2023

Erwin Duizer et al. Euro Surveill. 2023 Feb.

Abstract

On 21 November 2022, a wild poliovirus type 3 (WPV3) was isolated from an environmental surveillance sample of poliovirus essential facilities in the Netherlands. All 51 employees with access to this strain were screened for ongoing or recent poliovirus infection. One employee shedding WPV3 was identified on 8 December and placed in isolation; monitoring and contact tracing were initiated. WPV3 shedding continued for 4 weeks and stopped 5 January 2023. Isolation was lifted 11 January and no further transmission was detected.

Keywords: Global Action Plan (GAP); Saukett strain G; containment; environmental surveillance; poliovirus; poliovirus essential facility (PEF); wild poliovirus type 3 (WPV3).

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Conflict of interest: None declared.

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Figure 1
Timeline of surveillance and response to a wild poliovirus type 3 (WPV3)-shedding event at a poliovirus essential facility, Bilthoven, Netherlands 15 November 2022–18 January 2023
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Enterovirus and poliovirus detection of stool samples of a wild poliovirus 3-infected employee, Bilthoven, Netherlands, 4 December 2022–10 January 2023 (n = 22 samples)
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