Epidemiological Update, Detection of Sabin type 3 vaccine poliovirus in a case of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (15 June 2018)
Actualización Epidemiológica, Detección de poliovirus vacunal, Sabin tipo 3, en un caso de Parálisis Flácida Aguda (15 junio 2018)
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The following is an updated information on the case of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) with detection of Sabin type 3 vaccine poliovirus, previously reported in the PAHO/WHO Epidemiological Update of 8 June 20181. The case is a 34-month-old male, unvaccinated, resident of an indigenous community in Delta Amacuro, Venezuela, with paralysis onset on 29 April 2018. The clinical-epidemiological investigation carried out indicated that the flaccid paralysis of a lower limb persisted as of 11 June. Other children from the same community were vaccinated in April with a bivalent oral polio vaccine, so the case may have contracted the infection through the fecal-oral route. A continuación se presenta información actualizada sobre el caso de parálisis flácida aguda (PFA) con detección de poliovirus vacunal, Sabin tipo 3, que fuera reportado en la Actualización Epidemiológica del 8 de junio de 20181. El caso es un niño de 34 meses de edad, sin antecedente de vacunación, residente de una comunidad indígena en el Delta Amacuro, Venezuela, que inició parálisis el 29 de abril 2018. La investigación clínico-epidemiológica realizada indicó que al 11 de junio de 2018 persiste la parálisis flácida de miembro inferior. Otros niños de la misma comunidad fueron vacunados en el mes de abril con vacuna polio oral bivalente por lo que el caso pudo haber contraído la infección por la vía fecal-oral.
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