Barbara W. Johnson

TL;DR: This serotype-specific, fourplex real-time reverse transcriptase PCR nucleic acid detection assay can be used as a method for differential diagnosis of a specific DEN serotype in viremic dengue patients and as a tool for rapid identification and serotyping of DEN virus isolates.

TL;DR: Nine commercial CHIKV IgM detection assays were evaluated at 3 reference laboratories to provide guidance to public health diagnostic laboratories on their performance parameters and showed comparable performance to reference assays.

TL;DR: Nucleotide sequence comparison of the eight flavivirus RNA-positive pools showed that there was 100% identity among them, and phylogenetic analysis of the NS5 and envelope gene regions indicated that they represent a strain of the recently described CxFV from Japan.

TL;DR: Because the potential urban yellow fever (YF) mosquito vectors Aedes aegypti and Ae.

TL;DR: It is strongly suggested that arboviruses circulate and are common causes of disease in Guinea and improving surveillance and laboratory capacity forArbovirus diagnoses will be integral to understanding the burden posed by these agents in the region.