Surveillance of the major pathogenic arboviruses of public health concern in Gabon, Central Africa: increased risk of West Nile virus and dengue virus infections
| العنوان: | Surveillance of the major pathogenic arboviruses of public health concern in Gabon, Central Africa: increased risk of West Nile virus and dengue virus infections |
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| المؤلفون: | Joseph G. E. Essimengane, Georgelin Nguema Ondo, Haruka Abe, Vahid R. Zadeh, Yuri Ushijima, Marguerite Massinga Loembe, Bertrand Lell, Armel V. N. Mbouna, Selidji T Agnandji, Emmanuel B. Bache, Rodrigue Bikangui, Jiro Yasuda |
| المصدر: | BMC Infectious Diseases, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2021) BMC Infectious Diseases |
| بيانات النشر: | BMC, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 0301 basic medicine, Male, Adolescent, Fever, Arbovirus Infections, viruses, 030231 tropical medicine, Dengue virus, medicine.disease_cause, Arbovirus, Communicable Diseases, Emerging, Virus, Zika virus, lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases, Dengue, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Seroepidemiologic Studies, medicine, Seroprevalence, Animals, Humans, lcsh:RC109-216, Chikungunya, Gabon, Child, Surveillance, biology, Zika Virus Infection, Yellow fever, Infant, virus diseases, biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition, medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, Virology, 030104 developmental biology, Infectious Diseases, Child, Preschool, Africa, Female, Public Health, West Nile virus, Arboviruses, Research Article |
| الوصف: | Background: Increasing arbovirus infections have been a global burden in recent decades. Many countries have experienced the periodic emergence of arbovirus diseases. However, information on the prevalence of arboviruses is largely unknown or infrequently updated because of the lack of surveillance studies, especially in Africa. Methods: A surveillance study was conducted in Gabon, Central Africa, on arboviruses, which are a major public health concern in Africa, including: West Nile virus (WNV), dengue virus (DENV), Zika virus (ZIKV), yellow fever virus (YFV), chikungunya virus (CHIKV), and Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV). Serological and molecular assays were performed to investigate past infection history and the current status of infection, using serum samples collected from healthy individuals and febrile patients, respectively. Results: The overall seroprevalence during 2014˗2017 was estimated to be 25.3% for WNV, 20.4% for DENV, 40.3% for ZIKV, 60.7% for YFV, 61.2% for CHIKV, and 14.3% for RVFV. No significant differences were found in the seroprevalence of any of the viruses between the male and female populations. However, a focus on the mean age in each arbovirus-seropositive individual showed a significantly younger age in WNV- and DENV-seropositive individuals than in CHIKV-seropositive individuals, indicating that WNV and DENV caused a relatively recent epidemic in the region, whereas CHIKV had actively circulated before. Of note, this indication was supported by the detection of both WNV and DENV genomes in serum samples collected from febrile patients after 2016. Conclusions: This study revealed the recent re-emergence of WNV and DENV in Gabon as well as the latest seroprevalence state of the major arboviruses, which indicated the different potential risks of virus infections and virus-specific circulation patterns. This information will be helpful for public health organizations and will enable a rapid response towards these arbovirus infections, thereby preventing future spread in the country. BMC Infectious Diseases, 21, art. no. 265; 2021 |
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| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1471-2334 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::f1d19ea507509bc978529ac2cd404aa6Test https://doaj.org/article/ac7b6c7bb4f74431ba25c1ea2070639dTest |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....f1d19ea507509bc978529ac2cd404aa6 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14712334 |
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