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Journal Article Ppublish

PubMed: 39512164 DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.45.2400705

Detection of circulating type 3 vaccine-derived polioviruses in French Guiana, May to August 2024.

Euro Surveill 29(45)

Authors: Stéphanie Raffestin, Ambre Tinard, Antoine Enfissi, Marie-Line Joffret, Timothée Lichtenstein, Sourakhata Tirera, Laura Zanetti, Marie Barrau, Francky Mubenga, Adrien Ortelli, Christophe N Peyrefitte, Anne Lavergne, Dominique Rousset, Maël Bessaud

Affiliations

  • Consortium OBEPINE, Paris, France. Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, Laboratoire hygiène et environnement, Cayenne, France.
  • Centre collaborateur de l'OMS, Épidémiologie et macro-évolution des poliovirus and entérovirus non-polio, Paris, France. Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 3569, Signalisation antivirale, Paris, France. Laboratoire associé au Centre national de référence entérovirus/paréchovirus, Paris, France.
  • Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, Laboratoire de virologie, Cayenne, France.
  • Consortium OBEPINE, Paris, France.
  • Centre collaborateur de l'OMS, Épidémiologie et macro-évolution des poliovirus and entérovirus non-polio, Paris, France.
  • Laboratoire associé au Centre national de référence entérovirus/paréchovirus, Paris, France.
  • Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 3569, Signalisation antivirale, Paris, France.
  • Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, Laboratoire des interactions virus-hôtes, Cayenne, France.
  • Santé publique France, Direction des maladies infectieuses, Saint-Maurice, France.
  • Santé publique France, Direction des régions, Cellules Guyane, Cayenne, France.
  • Agence régionale de santé de Guyane, Direction de la santé publique Cayenne, France.
  • Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, Cayenne, France.

Abstract

Circulating type 3 vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV3s) were detected in three wastewater samples collected in French Guiana from May through August 2024. As the oral polio vaccine is not used in French Guiana, this event involved an import either of cVDPV3s themselves or of a vaccine strain from which the cVDPV3s emerged in French Guiana. This highlights the importance of environmental surveillance for the detection of silent poliovirus circulation. Eliminating any pockets of cVDPVs is crucial for the polio eradication programme.

MeSH

Poliomyelitis, Vaccines, Poliovirus, Communicable Diseases, Environmental Monitoring