Rift Valley fever, Mayotte, 2007-2008

Rift Valley fever, Mayotte, 2007-2008

After the 2006-2007 epidemic wave of Rift Valley fever (RVF) in East Africa and its circulation in the Comoros, laboratory case-finding of RVF was conducted in Mayotte from September 2007 through May 2008. Ten recent human RVF cases were detected, which confirms the indigenous transmission of RFV vi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Emerging infectious diseases 2009-04, Vol.15 (4), p.568-570
Hauptverfasser: Sissoko, Daouda, Giry, Claude, Gabrie, Philippe, Tarantola, Arnaud, Pettinelli, François, Collet, Louis, D'Ortenzio, Eric, Renault, Philippe, Pierre, Vincent
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Adolescent
Adult
Animals
Animals, Domestic - virology
Antibodies, Viral - blood
Causes of
Communicable Diseases, Emerging - epidemiology
Communicable Diseases, Emerging - transmission
Comoros - epidemiology
Culicidae - virology
Diagnosis
Disease Outbreaks
Disease Reservoirs - virology
Dispatch
Distribution
Epidemiology
Female
Humans
Male
Mayotte
Middle Aged
phlebovirus
Population Surveillance
Prospective Studies
Retrospective Studies
Rift Valley fever
Rift Valley Fever - epidemiology
Rift Valley Fever - transmission
Rift Valley fever virus
Rift Valley fever virus - immunology
Rift Valley fever virus - pathogenicity
surveillance
vector-borne infections
Young Adult
Zoonoses
Zoonoses - epidemiology
Zoonoses - transmission
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Zusammenfassung:After the 2006-2007 epidemic wave of Rift Valley fever (RVF) in East Africa and its circulation in the Comoros, laboratory case-finding of RVF was conducted in Mayotte from September 2007 through May 2008. Ten recent human RVF cases were detected, which confirms the indigenous transmission of RFV virus in Mayotte.
ISSN:1080-6040
1080-6059
DOI:10.3201/eid1504.081045