Wastewater Surveillance for Poliovirus in Selected Jurisdictions, United States, 2022-2023.

ABSTRACT: Wastewater testing can inform public health action as a component of polio outbreak response. During 2022-2023, a total of 7 US jurisdictions (5 states and 2 cities) participated in prospective or retrospective testing of wastewater for poliovirus after a paralytic polio case was identified in New York state. Two distinct vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 viruses were detected in wastewater from New York state and New York City during 2022, representing 2 separate importation events. Of those viruses, 1 resulted in persistent community transmission in multiple New York counties and 1 paralytic case. No poliovirus was detected in the other participating jurisdictions (Connecticut, New Jersey, Michigan, and Illinois and Chicago, IL). The value of routine wastewater surveillance for polioviru

SUBMITTER: Whitehouse ER 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11521156 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature