Dengue Virus Infection in Africa
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...The suggestion that dengue is an under-recognised problem in Africa is not a new one [55,56,57], but here we present a detailed Table 1....
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...22 of these countries reported local disease transmission, 20 reported lab-confirmed cases, and two reported clinical cases alone.(13,31) No ‘local’ reports of dengue occurred in the remaining 12 countries, only in travelers returning to non-endemic countries....
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...All four dengue virus serotypes have been seen in Africa, however, DENV-2 appears to have caused most epidemics.(13) Notably, in 2009, the Cape Verde archipelago had a large dengue outbreak involving more than 17,000 cases and linked to DENV-3....
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...This negatively impacts attempts to draw a comprehensive picture of the epidemiology of dengue in the region and establish regular surveillance, outbreak monitoring, and relevant prevention and control activities.(6,13)...
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...It would also enable improved decision making and rational allocation of financial, research, and other resources to the areas of greatest need.(6,13) For example, epidemiological data will be essential in planning funding, allocation, and distribution of dengue vaccines that could potentially become available in the next decade....
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...No ‘local’ reports of dengue occurred in the remaining 12 countries, only in travelers returning to non-endemic countries.(13) All four dengue virus serotypes have been seen in Africa, however, DENV-2 appears to have caused most epidemics....
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...The number of dengue outbreaks caused by the four dengue virus serotypes (DENV-1 to DENV-4) has increased since 1980, mainly affecting Asia, South America and the Caribbean (Jansen and Beebe, 2010; Amarasinghe et al., 2011)....
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...DENV has been reported from 34 countries in sub-Saharan Africa [69], fully listed in Table 1....
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"Dengue Virus Infection in Africa" refers background in this paper
...4% of global DHF cases occurred in Africa and that 20% of the population in Africa was at risk for dengue (39)....
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...In a setting where diagnostic testing is conducted, such as the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network, malaria was found to be the predominant cause of systemic febrile illness among travelers returning from sub-Saharan Africa (622/1,000 patients) compared with dengue (7/1,000) (11)....
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...Similar to reported global dengue endemicity patterns by region, travelers with dengue came more frequently from Southeast Asia and South America than Africa (11)....
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...Febrile illness was more frequently reported for travelers to sub-Saharan Africa (371 febrile illnesses/1,000 patients) than to any other region, followed by Southeast Asia (248/1,000) and South America (143/1,000) (11)....
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"Dengue Virus Infection in Africa" refers background in this paper
...Accumulation of nonbiodegradable, human-made containers in and around living areas has provided the aquatic environment required by these mosquitoes (25)....
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...During the 18th and 19th centuries, dengue was recognized almost exclusively among colonial settlers and military forces in Asia and the Americas and not among the local population, probably as a consequence of inadequate clinical investigation and surveillance (25)....
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...Existence of a silent zoonotic transmission cycle affords a potential mechanism for emergence of dengue in human populations and for selection of virus variants with altered host range and vector relationships (25)....
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...Vector Effi ciency Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the principal DENV vector, originated in Africa and spread to other countries in Africa and other tropical countries in the 17th and 18th centuries (1,3)....
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...Epidemics were reported in Zanzibar (1823, 1870), Burkina Faso (1925), Egypt (1887, 1927), South Africa (1926–1927), and Senegal (1927–1928) (1,5,7)....
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...Although sporadic cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) have been reported in a few countries in Africa, no outbreaks have been reported (1)....
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...Dengue is caused by 4 genetically related but antigenically different viruses, and although it is uncertain where DENV evolved, maintenance of all 4 serotypes in enzootic cycles in Africa suggests that a progenitor virus most likely originated in Africa (1)....
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...Subsequently, all 4 DENV serotypes have been isolated in Africa (1)....
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