Reemergence of chikungunya virus in Bo, Sierra Leone.

Ansumana, Rashid, Jacobsen, Kathryn H, Leski, Tomasz A, Covington, Andrea L, Bangura, Umaru, Hodges, Mary H., Lin, Baochuan, Bockarie, Alfred S, Lamin, Joseph M, Bockarie, Moses and Stenger, David A (2013) 'Reemergence of chikungunya virus in Bo, Sierra Leone.'. Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 19, Issue 7, pp. 1108-1110.

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Abstract

We diagnosed 400 possible IgM-positive cases of chikungunya virus in Bo, Sierra Leone, during July 2012-January 2013 by using lateral flow immunoassays. Cases detected likely represent only a small fraction of total cases. Further laboratory testing is required to confirm this outbreak and characterize the virus.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	QX Parasitology > Insects. Other Parasites > QX 525 Aedes QY Clinical Pathology > Diagnostic Tests > QY 250 Immunodiagnostic tests WC Communicable Diseases > WC 20 Research (General) WC Communicable Diseases > Virus Diseases > General RNA Virus Infections > WC 501 RNA virus infections (General or not elsewhere classified)
Faculty: Department:	Biological Sciences > Department of Tropical Disease Biology
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1907.121563
Depositing User:	Mary Creegan
Date Deposited:	21 Nov 2014 10:11
Last Modified:	17 May 2018 10:39
URI:	https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/4553

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