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Taylor-Salmon E, Hill V, Paul LM, Koch RT, Breban MI, Chaguza C, Sodeinde A, Warren JL, Bunch S, Cano N, Cone M, Eysoldt S, Garcia A, Gilles N, Hagy A, Heberlein L, Jaber R, Kassens E, Colarusso P, Davis A, Baudin S, Rico E, Mejía-Echeverri Á, Scott B, Stanek D, Zimler R, Muñoz-Jordán JL, Santiago GA, Adams LE, Paz-Bailey G, Spillane M, Katebi V, Paulino-Ramírez R, Mueses S, Peguero A, Sánchez N, Norman FF, Galán JC, Huits R, Hamer DH, Vogels CBF, Morrison A, Michael SF, Grubaugh ND. Travel surveillance uncovers dengue virus dynamics and introductions in the Caribbean. Nat Commun 2024; 15:3508. [PMID: 38664380 PMCID: PMC11045810 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47774-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2023] [Accepted: 04/11/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
Abstract
Dengue is the most prevalent mosquito-borne viral disease in humans, and cases are continuing to rise globally. In particular, islands in the Caribbean have experienced more frequent outbreaks, and all four dengue virus (DENV) serotypes have been reported in the region, leading to hyperendemicity and increased rates of severe disease. However, there is significant variability regarding virus surveillance and reporting between islands, making it difficult to obtain an accurate understanding of the epidemiological patterns in the Caribbean. To investigate this, we used travel surveillance and genomic epidemiology to reconstruct outbreak dynamics, DENV serotype turnover, and patterns of spread within the region from 2009-2022. We uncovered two recent DENV-3 introductions from Asia, one of which resulted in a large outbreak in Cuba, which was previously under-reported. We also show that while outbreaks can be synchronized between islands, they are often caused by different serotypes. Our study highlights the importance of surveillance of infected travelers to provide a snapshot of local introductions and transmission in areas with limited local surveillance and suggests that the recent DENV-3 introductions may pose a major public health threat in the region.
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Affiliation(s)
- Emma Taylor-Salmon
- Department of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA.
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA
- Public Health Modeling Unit, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Bureau of Public Health Laboratories, Division of Disease Control and Health Protection, Florida Department of Health, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Bureau of Public Health Laboratories, Division of Disease Control and Health Protection, Florida Department of Health, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Bureau of Public Health Laboratories, Division of Disease Control and Health Protection, Florida Department of Health, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Bureau of Public Health Laboratories, Division of Disease Control and Health Protection, Florida Department of Health, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Bureau of Public Health Laboratories, Division of Disease Control and Health Protection, Florida Department of Health, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Bureau of Public Health Laboratories, Division of Disease Control and Health Protection, Florida Department of Health, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Bureau of Public Health Laboratories, Division of Disease Control and Health Protection, Florida Department of Health, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Bureau of Public Health Laboratories, Division of Disease Control and Health Protection, Florida Department of Health, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Bureau of Public Health Laboratories, Division of Disease Control and Health Protection, Florida Department of Health, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Bureau of Public Health Laboratories, Division of Disease Control and Health Protection, Florida Department of Health, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Bureau of Public Health Laboratories, Division of Disease Control and Health Protection, Florida Department of Health, Jacksonville, FL, USA
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- Bureau of Public Health Laboratories, Division of Disease Control and Health Protection, Florida Department of Health, Jacksonville, FL, USA
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- Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County, Miami, FL, USA
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- Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County, Miami, FL, USA
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- Bureau of Epidemiology, Division of Disease Control and Health Protection, Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Bureau of Epidemiology, Division of Disease Control and Health Protection, Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Bureau of Epidemiology, Division of Disease Control and Health Protection, Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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- Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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- Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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- Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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- Office of Data, Analytics, and Technology, Division of Global Migration Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Bureau for Global Health, United States Agency for International Development, Arlington, VA, USA
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- Office of Data, Analytics, and Technology, Division of Global Migration Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Instituto de Medicina Tropical & Salud Global, Universidad Iberoamericana, UNIBE Research Hub, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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- Instituto de Medicina Tropical & Salud Global, Universidad Iberoamericana, UNIBE Research Hub, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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- Instituto de Medicina Tropical & Salud Global, Universidad Iberoamericana, UNIBE Research Hub, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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- Instituto de Medicina Tropical & Salud Global, Universidad Iberoamericana, UNIBE Research Hub, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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- National Referral Unit for Tropical Diseases, Infectious Diseases Department, CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas, IRYCIS, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain
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- Microbiology Department, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), CIBER de Epidemiologia y Salud Publica (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Infectious Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy
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- Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston University School of Medicine, Center for Emerging Infectious Disease Policy and Research, Boston University, and National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratory, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA
- Yale Institute for Global Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Bureau of Epidemiology, Division of Disease Control and Health Protection, Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL, USA.
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA.
- Public Health Modeling Unit, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA.
- Yale Institute for Global Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
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Jitvaropas R, Sawaswong V, Poovorawan Y, Auysawasdi N, Vuthitanachot V, Wongwairot S, Rodkvamtook W, Lindroth E, Payungporn S, Linsuwanon P. Identification of Bacteria and Viruses Associated with Patients with Acute Febrile Illness in Khon Kaen Province, Thailand. Viruses 2024; 16:630. [PMID: 38675971 PMCID: PMC11054472 DOI: 10.3390/v16040630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2024] [Accepted: 04/08/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
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The majority of cases of undifferentiated acute febrile illness (AFI) in the tropics have an undefined etiology. In Thailand, AFI accounts for two-thirds of illnesses reported to the Ministry of Public Health. To characterize the bacterial and viral causes of these AFIs, we conducted molecular pathogen screening and serological analyses in patients who sought treatment in Chum Phae Hospital, Khon Kaen province, during the period from 2015 to 2016. Through integrated approaches, we successfully identified the etiology in 25.5% of cases, with dengue virus infection being the most common cause, noted in 17% of the study population, followed by scrub typhus in 3.8% and rickettsioses in 6.8%. Further investigations targeting viruses in patients revealed the presence of Guadeloupe mosquito virus (GMV) in four patients without other pathogen co-infections. The characterization of four complete genome sequences of GMV amplified from AFI patients showed a 93-97% nucleotide sequence identity with GMV previously reported in mosquitoes. Nucleotide substitutions resulted in amino acid differences between GMV amplified from AFI patients and mosquitoes, observed in 37 positions. However, these changes had undergone purifying selection pressure and potentially had a minimal impact on protein function. Our study suggests that the GMV strains identified in the AFI patients are relatively similar to those previously reported in mosquitoes, highlighting their potential role associated with febrile illness.
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- Rungrat Jitvaropas
- Division of Biochemistry, Department of Preclinical Science, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University, Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand;
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- Center of Excellence in Systems Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand;
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- Center of Excellence in Clinical Virology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand;
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- Department of Entomology, US Medical Directorate-Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Science, Bangkok 10400, Thailand; (N.A.); (S.W.); (E.L.)
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- Department of Entomology, US Medical Directorate-Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Science, Bangkok 10400, Thailand; (N.A.); (S.W.); (E.L.)
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- Analytic Division, Royal Thai Army Component-Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Science, Bangkok 10400, Thailand;
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- Department of Entomology, US Medical Directorate-Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Science, Bangkok 10400, Thailand; (N.A.); (S.W.); (E.L.)
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- Center of Excellence in Systems Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand;
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
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- Department of Entomology, US Medical Directorate-Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Science, Bangkok 10400, Thailand; (N.A.); (S.W.); (E.L.)
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Rimal S, Shrestha S, Paudel SW, Shah Y, Bhandari G, Pandey K, Kharbuja A, Kapandji M, Gautam I, Bhujel R, Takamatsu Y, Bhandari R, Klungthong C, Shrestha SK, Fernandez S, Malavige GN, Pandey BD, Urano T, Morita K, Ngwe Tun MM, Dumre SP. Molecular and Entomological Characterization of 2023 Dengue Outbreak in Dhading District, Central Nepal. Viruses 2024; 16:594. [PMID: 38675935 PMCID: PMC11053854 DOI: 10.3390/v16040594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2024] [Revised: 04/07/2024] [Accepted: 04/09/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
Abstract
In 2023, Nepal faced its second largest dengue outbreak ever, following a record-breaking number of dengue cases in 2022, characterized by the expansion of infections into areas of higher altitudes. However, the characteristics of the 2023 circulating dengue virus (DENV) and the vector density remain poorly understood. Therefore, we performed DENV serotyping, clinical and laboratory assessment, and entomological analysis of the 2023 outbreak in central Nepal. A total of 396 fever cases in Dhading hospital suspected of being DENV positive were enrolled, and blood samples were collected and tested by different techniques including PCR. Of these, 278 (70.2%) had confirmed DENV infection. Multiple serotypes (DENV-1, -2, and -3) were detected. DENV-2 (97.5%) re-emerged after six years in Dhading while DENV-3 was identified for the first time. Dengue inpatients had significantly higher frequency of anorexia, myalgia, rash, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and thrombocytopenia (p < 0.05). In this area, Aedes mosquitoes largely predominated (90.7%) with the majority being A. aegypti (60.7%). We also found high levels of Aedes index (20.0%) and container index (16.7%). We confirmed multiple DENV serotype circulation with serotype re-emergence and new serotype introduction, and high vector density in 2023. These findings call for the urgent initiation and scaling up of DENV molecular surveillance in human and mosquito populations for dengue control and prevention in Nepal.
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- Sandesh Rimal
- Central Department of Microbiology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu 44601, Nepal; (S.R.); (S.S.); (A.K.); (R.B.)
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- Central Department of Microbiology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu 44601, Nepal; (S.R.); (S.S.); (A.K.); (R.B.)
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- Dhading Hospital, Dhading Besi 45100, Nepal; (S.W.P.); (G.B.); (R.B.)
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- Central Department of Zoology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu 44601, Nepal;
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- Central Department of Microbiology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu 44601, Nepal; (S.R.); (S.S.); (A.K.); (R.B.)
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- Department of Virology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan; (M.K.); (Y.T.); (K.M.)
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- Natural History Museum, Tribhuvan University, Swayambhu, Kathmandu 44620, Nepal;
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- Central Department of Microbiology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu 44601, Nepal; (S.R.); (S.S.); (A.K.); (R.B.)
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- Department of Virology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan; (M.K.); (Y.T.); (K.M.)
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- Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok 10400, Thailand; (C.K.); (S.F.)
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- Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok 10400, Thailand; (C.K.); (S.F.)
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- DEJIMA Infectious Disease Research Alliance, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan; (B.D.P.); (T.U.)
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- DEJIMA Infectious Disease Research Alliance, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan; (B.D.P.); (T.U.)
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- Department of Virology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan; (M.K.); (Y.T.); (K.M.)
- DEJIMA Infectious Disease Research Alliance, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan; (B.D.P.); (T.U.)
- Center for Vaccines and Therapeutic Antibodies for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Shimane University, Izumo 690-8504, Japan
- Department of Tropical Viral Vaccine Development, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan
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- Department of Virology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan; (M.K.); (Y.T.); (K.M.)
- DEJIMA Infectious Disease Research Alliance, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan; (B.D.P.); (T.U.)
- Center for Vaccines and Therapeutic Antibodies for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Shimane University, Izumo 690-8504, Japan
- Department of Tropical Viral Vaccine Development, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan
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- Central Department of Microbiology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu 44601, Nepal; (S.R.); (S.S.); (A.K.); (R.B.)
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Jusoh TNAM, Jaafar IS, Shueb RH. Isolation and molecular detection of dengue and chikungunya virus from field-collected adult mosquitoes in Kelantan, Malaysia. J Vector Borne Dis 2024; 61:61-71. [PMID: 38648407 DOI: 10.4103/0972-9062.392269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2023] [Accepted: 08/10/2023] [Indexed: 04/25/2024] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND OBJECTIVES Dengue and chikungunya infections are one of the major health problems that have plagued the human population globally. All dengue virus (DENV) serotypes circulate within Malaysia with particular serotypes dominating in different years/outbreaks. In the state of Kelantan, an increasing number of DENV and chikungunya virus (CHIKV) new cases have been reported, including several deaths. This study aimed to isolate and detect these arboviruses from adult mosquitoes in Kelantan. METHODS Adult mo squito samples were collected from January to August 2019 and were identified according to gender, species and locality. The isolation of the virus was done in C6/36 cells. Dengue NS1 antigen was carried out using direct mosquito lysate and mosquito culture supernatant. Detection and serotyping of the DENV was performed using multiplex RT-PCR and CHIKV detection using a one-step RT-PCR assay. RESULTS Of 91 mosquito pools, four were positive for NS1 antigen comprising two pools (2.2%) of male Ae. albopictus (Pulau Melaka and Kubang Siput) and two pools (2.2%) of Ae. aegypti (Kampung Demit Sungai). DENV 1 was detected in one pool (0.9%) of female Ae. albopictus among 114 tested Aedes pools. Two pools of 114 pools (1.7%) from both male Aedes species were positive with double serotypes, DENV 1 and DENV 2 (Pulau Melaka). However, no pool was positive for CHIKV. INTERPRETATION CONCLUSION The presence of DENV and the main vectors of arboviruses in Kelantan are pertinent indicators of the need to improve vector controls to reduce arbovirus infections among people in the localities.
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- Tuan Nur A Mat Jusoh
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, School of Medical Sciences, Health Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, School of Medical Sciences, Health Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia
- Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine (INFORMM), Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia
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Prakash O, Verma AK, Paliwal A, Abbas F, Srivastava AK, Mishra VK, Radera S, Jain A. Circulating serotypes and genotypes of dengue virus in North India: An observational study. J Vector Borne Dis 2024; 61:117-122. [PMID: 38648413 DOI: 10.4103/0972-9062.392258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 09/20/2023] [Indexed: 04/25/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND OBJECTIVES This study reports observation on circulating serotypes and genotypes of Dengue Virus in North India. METHODS Serum samples were obtained from suspected cases of dengue referred to the virus diagnostic laboratory during 2014 to 2022. All samples were tested for anti-dengue virus IgM antibodies and NS1Ag by ELISA. NS1Ag positive samples were processed for serotyping and genotyping. RESULTS Total 41,476 dengue suspected cases were referred to the laboratory of which 12,292 (29.6%) tested positive. Anti-Dengue Virus IgM antibodies, NS1Ag, both IgM and NS1Ag, were positive in 7007 (57.4%); 3200 (26.0%) and 2085 (16.0%) cases respectively. Total 762 strains were serotyped during 9-year period. DENV-1, DENV-2, DENV-3 and DENV-4 serotypes were found in 79 (10.37%), 506 (66.40%), 151 (19.82%) and 26 (3.41%) cases respectively. DENV-1, DENV-2 and DENV-3 were in circulation throughout. Total 105 strains were genotyped. Genotype IV of DENV-1 serotype was circulating till 2014 which was later replaced by genotype V. A distinct seasonality with increase in number of cases in post-monsoon period was seen. INTERPRETATION CONCLUSION DENV-1, DENV-2 and DENV-3 were found to be in circulation in North India. Predominant serotype/genotype changed at times, but not at regular intervals.
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- Om Prakash
- Department of Microbiology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India
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Pollak NM, Olsson M, Ahmed M, Tan J, Lim G, Setoh YX, Wong JCC, Lai YL, Hobson-Peters J, Macdonald J, McMillan D. Rapid Diagnostic Tests for the Detection of the Four Dengue Virus Serotypes in Clinically Relevant Matrices. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0279622. [PMID: 36682882 PMCID: PMC9927141 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.02796-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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The efficient and accurate diagnosis of dengue, a major mosquito-borne disease, is of primary importance for clinical care, surveillance, and outbreak control. The identification of specific dengue virus serotype 1 (DENV-1) to DENV-4 can help in understanding the transmission dynamics and spread of dengue disease. The four rapid low-resource serotype-specific dengue tests use a simple sample preparation reagent followed by reverse transcription-isothermal recombinase polymerase amplification (RT-RPA) combined with lateral flow detection (LFD) technology. Results are obtained directly from clinical sample matrices in 35 min, requiring only a heating block and pipettes for liquid handling. In addition, we demonstrate that the rapid sample preparation step inactivates DENV, improving laboratory safety. Human plasma and serum were spiked with DENV, and DENV was detected with analytical sensitivities of 333 to 22,500 median tissue culture infectious doses (TCID50)/mL. The analytical sensitivities in blood were 94,000 to 333,000 TCID50/mL. Analytical specificity testing confirmed that each test could detect multiple serotype-specific strains but did not respond to strains of other serotypes, closely related flaviviruses, or chikungunya virus. Clinical testing on 80 human serum samples demonstrated test specificities of between 94 and 100%, with a DENV-2 test sensitivity of 100%, detecting down to 0.004 PFU/μL, similar to the sensitivity of the PCR test; the other DENV tests detected down to 0.03 to 10.9 PFU/μL. Collectively, our data suggest that some of our rapid dengue serotyping tests provide a potential alternative to conventional labor-intensive RT-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) detection, which requires expensive thermal cycling instrumentation, technical expertise, and prolonged testing times. Our tests provide performance and speed without compromising specificity in human plasma and serum and could become promising tools for the detection of high DENV loads in resource-limited settings. IMPORTANCE The efficient and accurate diagnosis of dengue, a major mosquito-borne disease, is of primary importance for clinical care, surveillance, and outbreak control. This study describes the evaluation of four rapid low-resource serotype-specific dengue tests for the detection of specific DENV serotypes in clinical sample matrices. The tests use a simple sample preparation reagent followed by reverse transcription-isothermal recombinase polymerase amplification (RT-RPA) combined with lateral flow detection (LFD) technology. These tests have several advantages compared to RT-qPCR detection, such as a simple workflow, rapid sample processing and turnaround times (35 min from sample preparation to detection), minimal equipment needs, and improved laboratory safety through the inactivation of the virus during the sample preparation step. The low-resource formats of these rapid dengue serotyping tests have the potential to support effective dengue disease surveillance and enhance the diagnostic testing capacity in resource-limited countries with both endemic dengue and intense coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) transmission.
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- Nina M. Pollak
- Centre for Bioinnovation, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia
- DMTC Ltd., Kew, Victoria, Australia
- School of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia
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- Centre for Bioinnovation, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia
- DMTC Ltd., Kew, Victoria, Australia
- School of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia
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- Centre for Bioinnovation, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia
- School of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia
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- Environmental Health Institute, National Environment Agency, Singapore, Singapore
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- Environmental Health Institute, National Environment Agency, Singapore, Singapore
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- Environmental Health Institute, National Environment Agency, Singapore, Singapore
- Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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- Environmental Health Institute, National Environment Agency, Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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- DMTC Ltd., Kew, Victoria, Australia
- BioCifer Pty. Ltd., Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Centre for Bioinnovation, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia
- DMTC Ltd., Kew, Victoria, Australia
- School of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia
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Haddad N, Omran H, Amraoui F, Zakhia R, Mousson L, Failloux AB. The tiger mosquito in Lebanon two decades after its introduction: A growing health concern. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2022; 16:e0010206. [PMID: 35139066 PMCID: PMC8863254 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2021] [Revised: 02/22/2022] [Accepted: 01/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The tiger mosquito was introduced to the Eastern region of the Mediterranean basin more than twenty years ago. In Lebanon, it was first observed in 2002 in a limited number of locations mainly from the coastal area of the country. In the absence of national entomological control program, this invasive mosquito became an established species and is now considered in many localities, a source of nuisance because of its human biting behavior. Several entomological surveys were conducted to monitor the geographic spread and the seasonal dynamics of Aedes albopictus by collecting adult stages and by monitoring oviposition activity. Moreover, its susceptibility to the common groups of insecticides was assessed using WHO standard bioassays. Previous vector competence studies revealed that local strains were able to transmit Chikungunya and Dengue viruses. Due to the increased risk of Zika virus introduction in the country, we determined the competence of local populations to transmit this virus. Mapping results showed that Ae. albopictus is mainly spread in the relatively humid western versant of the Mount Lebanon chain reaching 1000m altitude, while it is absent from arid and semi-arid inland areas. Besides, this mosquito is active during 32 weeks from spring till the end of autumn. Local strains of the tiger mosquito are susceptible to pyrethroids and carbamates but resistant to organophosphates and organochlorines. They showed ability to transmit Zika virus; however, only 9% of females were capable to excrete the virus in their saliva at day 28 post infection. Current and previous observations highlight the need to establish a surveillance system in order to control this mosquito and monitor the potential introduction of related diseases. Aedes albopictus, also called the tiger mosquito, is one the most invasive mosquito species worldwide. It is originated from South-East Asia and islands of the Pacific and Indian oceans and is known to be able to transmit to humans many viral diseases. During the last four decades it succeeded to invade many countries in all continents through an increasing international trade and travel. This mosquito was first observed in Lebanon, in the Middle East region, in 2002. Previous studies revealed that the introduced mosquito was able to transmit Chikungunya and Dengue viruses under experimental conditions. Therefore, it represents a health threat for the Lebanese population. In this study, the authors assessed the status of the tiger mosquito in the country two decades after its first record. They showed that it is widespread in the humid and sub-humid regions of Mount Lebanon chain and is active from spring through late autumn. The authors experimentally demonstrated the ability of this mosquito to transmit Zika virus, a virus that is highly likely to get introduced to Lebanon due to important population flow from South America to the country during the summer season. Finally, the authors found that local populations of tiger mosquito were susceptible to insecticides of the pyrethroids and carbamates groups but resistant to those of the organochlorines and organophosphates groups. The generated information should help national health authorities to establish a targeted surveillance and control strategies for this mosquito.
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- Nabil Haddad
- Laboratory of Immunology and Vector-Borne Diseases, Faculty of Public Health, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon
- * E-mail: (NH); (A-BF)
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- Laboratory of Immunology and Vector-Borne Diseases, Faculty of Public Health, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Laboratory of Arboviruses and Insect Vectors, Department of Virology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Laboratory of Immunology and Vector-Borne Diseases, Faculty of Public Health, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Laboratory of Arboviruses and Insect Vectors, Department of Virology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Laboratory of Arboviruses and Insect Vectors, Department of Virology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- * E-mail: (NH); (A-BF)
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Russell TL, Horwood PF, Harrington H, Apairamo A, Kama NJ, Bobogare A, MacLaren D, Burkot TR. Seroprevalence of dengue, Zika, chikungunya and Ross River viruses across the Solomon Islands. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2022; 16:e0009848. [PMID: 35143495 PMCID: PMC8865700 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2021] [Revised: 02/23/2022] [Accepted: 01/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Across the Pacific, and including in the Solomon Islands, outbreaks of arboviruses such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika are increasing in frequency, scale and impact. Outbreaks of mosquito-borne disease have the potential to overwhelm the health systems of small island nations. This study mapped the seroprevalence of dengue, Zika, chikungunya and Ross River viruses in 5 study sites in the Solomon Islands. Serum samples from 1,021 participants were analysed by ELISA. Overall, 56% of participants were flavivirus-seropositive for dengue (28%), Zika (1%) or both flaviviruses (27%); and 53% of participants were alphavirus-seropositive for chikungunya (3%), Ross River virus (31%) or both alphaviruses (18%). Seroprevalence for both flaviviruses and alphaviruses varied by village and age of the participant. The most prevalent arboviruses in the Solomon Islands were dengue and Ross River virus. The high seroprevalence of dengue suggests that herd immunity may be a driver of dengue outbreak dynamics in the Solomon Islands. Despite being undetected prior to this survey, serology results suggest that Ross River virus transmission is endemic. There is a real need to increase the diagnostic capacities for each of the arboviruses to support effective case management and to provide timely information to inform vector control efforts and other outbreak mitigation interventions. The occurrence of arboviruses is increasing and causing significant impacts on human health. This is of high concern in small Pacific island nations where fragile health systems are regularly overwhelmed by disease outbreaks. To effectively prevent and control disease transmission there is a need to understand which viruses have been in circulation. Therefore, we conducted a cross-sectional survey of residents from 5 study sites distributed across the Solomon Islands. The serum samples were tested for antibodies that indicate prior infection for four arboviruses. We found evidence that the residents of the Solomon Islands have been exposed to substantial transmission of dengue and Ross River viruses, with lower levels of Zika and chikungunya transmission. Two large dengue outbreaks have been recently experienced and the outbreak pattern suggests that natural herd immunity may still be a driver of dengue outbreak dynamics in the Solomon Islands. Regarding Ross River virus, transmission is endemic despite being undetected prior to this survey. There is a real need to increase the capacity to accurately diagnose each of these arboviruses to support effective case management and to provide timely information to inform vector control efforts.
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- Tanya L. Russell
- Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia
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- Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia
- College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
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- College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia
- Atoifi College of Nursing, Atoifi Adventist Hospital, Atoifi, Malaita, Solomon Islands
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- National Vector Borne Disease Control Program, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Honiara, Solomon Islands
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- National Vector Borne Disease Control Program, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Honiara, Solomon Islands
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- National Vector Borne Disease Control Program, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Honiara, Solomon Islands
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- College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia
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- Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia
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Alves FDAV, Oliveira LDLS, Salomão NG, Provance DW, Basilio-de-Oliveira CA, Basílio-de-Oliveira R, Moragas LJ, de Carvalho JJ, Mohana-Borges R, Rabelo K, Paes MV. Cytokines and inflammatory mediators: Markers involved in interstitial damage to the pancreas in two dengue fever cases associated with acute pancreatitis. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0262785. [PMID: 35041718 PMCID: PMC8765625 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0262785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2021] [Accepted: 01/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Dengue viral (DENV) infections can lead to acute pancreatitis and associated tissue damage. This study examined the pancreas from two fatal cases of DENV for histopathological changes as well as for the detection of cytokines, and other inflammatory mediators. Tissue sections were prepared for examination by ultrastructural and histopathological techniques. Sections from the pancreas of non-infected individuals were prepared in parallel as a control. The presence of viral replication in macrophages was detected by co-staining for the proteins NS3 and CD68 by immunofluorescence. Immunohistochemistry was used to detect cells that expressed cytokines and inflammatory mediators to characterize the inflammatory response. Edema, acinar necrosis and fibrosis areas associated with a mononuclear infiltrate were found in infected tissues. The major site of virus replication appeared to be macrophages based on their exclusive presentation of the viral protein NS3. Pancreatic tissues from the infected individuals also displayed increased levels of high mobility group box-1, caspase-3, gelatinase B and tumor necrosis factor alpha compared to controls. The presence of virus replicating macrophages in the pancreas was associated with multiple changes in tissue structure that included elevated levels of cytokines and inflammatory markers that may differentiate acute pancreatitis due to DENV infections from other causes.
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- Felipe de Andrade Vieira Alves
- Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas Médicas, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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- Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas Médicas, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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- Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas Médicas, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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- Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas Médicas, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Centro de Desenvolvimento Tecnológico em Saúde, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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- Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas Médicas, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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- Laboratório de Ultraestrutura e Biologia Tecidual, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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- Laboratório de Genômica Estrutural, Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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- Laboratório de Ultraestrutura e Biologia Tecidual, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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- Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas Médicas, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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Harapan H, Michie A, Ernst T, Panta K, Mudatsir M, Yohan B, Haryanto S, McCarthy S, Sasmono RT, Imrie A. Co-Circulation of Chikungunya and Multiple DENV Serotypes and Genotypes, Western Indonesia 2015-2016. Viruses 2022; 14:99. [PMID: 35062303 PMCID: PMC8779054 DOI: 10.3390/v14010099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2021] [Revised: 12/31/2021] [Accepted: 01/04/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
Abstract
Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease of public health concern affecting tropical and subtropical countries, including Indonesia. Although studies on dengue epidemiology have been undertaken in Indonesia, data are lacking in many areas of the country. The aim of this study was to determine dengue virus (DENV) and chikungunya virus (CHIKV) molecular epidemiology in western regions of the Indonesian archipelago. A one-year prospective study was conducted in Aceh and Jambi in 2015 and 2016, respectively, where patients with dengue-like illness were enrolled. Of 205 patients recruited, 29 and 27 were confirmed with dengue in Aceh and Jambi, respectively, and three from Jambi were confirmed with chikungunya. DENV-1 was the predominant serotype identified in Aceh while DENV-2 was predominant in Jambi. All DENV-1 and DENV-2 from both regions were classified as Genotype I and Cosmopolitan genotype, respectively, and all DENV-3 viruses from Jambi were Genotype I. Some viruses, in particular DENV-1, displayed a distinct lineage distribution, where two DENV-1 lineages from Aceh were more closely related to viruses from China instead of Jambi highlighting the role of travel and flight patterns on DENV transmission in the region. DENV-2 from both Aceh and Jambi and DENV-3 from Jambi were all closely related to Indonesian local strains. All three CHIKV belonged to Asian genotype and clustered closely with Indonesian CHIKV strains including those previously circulating in Jambi in 2015, confirming continuous and sustainable transmission of CHIKV in the region. The study results emphasize the importance of continuous epidemiological surveillance of arboviruses in Indonesia and simultaneous testing for CHIKV among dengue-suspected patients.
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- Harapan Harapan
- Medical Research Unit, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh 23111, Indonesia; (H.H.); (M.M.)
- Tropical Disease Centre, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh 23111, Indonesia
- Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh 23111, Indonesia
- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia; (A.M.); (T.E.); (K.P.); (S.M.)
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia; (A.M.); (T.E.); (K.P.); (S.M.)
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia; (A.M.); (T.E.); (K.P.); (S.M.)
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia; (A.M.); (T.E.); (K.P.); (S.M.)
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- Medical Research Unit, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh 23111, Indonesia; (H.H.); (M.M.)
- Tropical Disease Centre, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh 23111, Indonesia
- Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh 23111, Indonesia
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- Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta 10430, Indonesia; (B.Y.); (R.T.S.)
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universitas Jambi, Jambi 36361, Indonesia;
- Raden Mattaher Hospital, Jambi 36361, Indonesia
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia; (A.M.); (T.E.); (K.P.); (S.M.)
- Pathwest Laboratory Medicine, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia
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- Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta 10430, Indonesia; (B.Y.); (R.T.S.)
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia; (A.M.); (T.E.); (K.P.); (S.M.)
- Pathwest Laboratory Medicine, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia
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Sang S, Liu Q, Guo X, Wu D, Ke C, Liu-Helmersson J, Jiang J, Weng Y, Wang Y. The epidemiological characteristics of dengue in high-risk areas of China, 2013-2016. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2021; 15:e0009970. [PMID: 34928951 PMCID: PMC8687583 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2021] [Accepted: 11/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
Introduction Dengue has become a more serious human health concern in China, with increased incidence and expanded outbreak regions. The knowledge of the cross-sectional and longitudinal epidemiological characteristics and the evolutionary dynamics of dengue in high-risk areas of China is limited. Methods Records of dengue cases from 2013 to 2016 were obtained from the China Notifiable Disease Surveillance System. Full envelope gene sequences of dengue viruses detected from the high-risk areas of China were collected. Maximum Likelihood tree and haplotype network analyses were conducted to explore the phylogenetic relationship of viruses from high-risk areas of China. Results A total of 56,520 cases was reported in China from 2013 to 2016. During this time, Yunnan, Guangdong and Fujian provinces were the high-risk areas. Imported cases occurred almost year-round, and were mainly introduced from Southeast Asia. The first indigenous case usually occurred in June to August, and the last one occurred before December in Yunnan and Fujian provinces but in December in Guangdong Province. Seven genotypes of DENV 1–3 were detected in the high-risk areas, with DENV 1-I the main genotype and DENV 2-Cosmopolitan the secondary one. The Maximum Likelihood trees show that almost all the indigenous viruses separated into different clusters. DENV 1-I viruses were found to be clustered in Guangdong Province, but not in Fujian and Yunnan, from 2013 to 2015. The ancestors of the Guangdong viruses in the cluster in 2013 and 2014 were most closely related to strains from Thailand or Singapore, and the Guangdong virus in 2015 was most closely related to the Guangdong virus of 2014. Based on closest phylogenetic relationships, viruses from Myanmar possibly initiated further indigenous cases in Yunnan, those from Indonesia in Fujian, while viruses from Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia were predominant in Guangdong Province. Conclusions Dengue is still an imported disease in China, although some genotypes continued to circulate in successive years. Viral phylogenies based on the envelope gene suggested periodic introductions of dengue strains into China, primarily from Southeast Asia, with occasional sustained, multi-year transmission in some regions of China. Dengue is the most prevalent and rapidly spreading mosquito-borne viral disease globally. Because of the multiple introductions, dengue outbreaks occurred in epidemic seasons in Southern China, supported by suitable weather conditions. Surveillance data from 2013 to 2016 in China showed that Guangdong, Yunnan and Fujian provinces were the high-risk areas, with dengue outbreaks occurring almost every year. However, knowledge has been lacking of the epidemiological characteristics and the evolution pattern of dengue virus in these high-risk areas. This study shows a variety of epidemiological characteristics and sources of imported cases among the high-risk areas in China, with likely origins primarily from countries in Southeast Asia. Seven genotypes of the DENV 1–3 variety co-circulated with DENV1-I, the main genotype, and DENV 2-Cosmopolitan, the secondary. Genetic relationships among viral strains suggest that the indigenous viruses in the high-risk areas arose from imported viruses and sometimes persisted between years into the next epidemic season, especially in Guangdong Province. Population movement has played a vital role in dengue epidemics in China. This information may be useful in dengue control, especially during epidemic seasons and in the development of an early warning system within the region, in collaboration with bordering countries.
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- Shaowei Sang
- Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, People’s Republic of China
- Clinical Research Center of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, People’s Republic of China
- Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changping, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- Yunnan Provincial Center of Arborvirus Research, Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Vector-borne Diseases Control and Research, Yunnan Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Pu’er, Yunnan, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China
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- Yunnan Provincial Center of Arborvirus Research, Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Vector-borne Diseases Control and Research, Yunnan Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Pu’er, Yunnan, People’s Republic of China
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- Fujian center for disease control and prevention, Fuzhou, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
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Guad RM, Carandang RR, Solidum JN, W. Taylor-Robinson A, Wu YS, Aung YN, Low WY, Sim MS, Sekaran SD, Azizan N. Different domains of dengue research in the Philippines: A systematic review and meta-analysis of questionnaire-based studies. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0261412. [PMID: 34929011 PMCID: PMC8687574 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0261412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2021] [Accepted: 12/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Background
Dengue is the most rapidly spreading mosquito-borne viral disease of humans worldwide, including southeast Asia region. This review provides a comprehensive overview of questionnaire-related dengue studies conducted in the Philippines and evaluates their reliability and validity in these surveys.
Methods
A review protocol constructed by a panel of experienced academic reviewers was used to formulate the methodology, research design, search strategy and selection criteria. An extensive literature search was conducted between March–June 2020 in various major electronic biomedical databases including PubMed, EMBASE, MEDLINE and ScienceDirect. A systematic review and meta-analysis (PRISMA) were selected as the preferred item reporting method.
Results
Out of a total of 34 peer-reviewed dengue-related KAP studies that were identified, 15 published from 2000 to April 2020 met the inclusion criteria. Based on the meta-analysis, a poor mean score was obtained for each of knowledge (68.89), attitude (49.86) and preventive practice (64.69). Most respondents were equipped with a good knowledge of the major clinical signs of dengue. Worryingly, 95% of respondents showed several negative attitudes towards dengue prevention, claiming that this was not possible and that enacting preventive practices was not their responsibility. Interestingly, television or radio was claimed as the main source of gaining dengue information (range 50–95%). Lastly, only five articles (33.3%) piloted or pretested their questionnaire before surveying, of which three reported Cronbach’s alpha coefficient (range 0.70 to 0.90).
Conclusion
This review indicates that to combat the growing public health threat of dengue to the Philippines, we need the active participation of resident communities, full engagement of healthcare personnel, promotion of awareness campaigns, and access to safe complementary and alternative medicines. Importantly, the psychometric properties of each questionnaire should be assessed rigorously.
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- Rhanye Mac Guad
- Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Life Sciences, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Department of Biomedical Science and Therapeutics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
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- Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- School of Health, Medical & Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- College of Health & Human Sciences, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, NT, Australia
- College of Health Sciences, Vin University, Gia Lam District, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Centre for Virus and Vaccine Research, School of Medical and Life Sciences, Sunway University, Selangor, Malaysia
- Department of Biological Sciences, School of Medical and Life Sciences, Sunway University, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, UCSI University, Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Asia-Europe Institute, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Life Sciences, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, UCSI University, Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
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- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
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Buensuceso CE, Tiu BDB, Lee LP, Sabido PMG, Nuesca GM, Caldona EB, Del Mundo FR, Advincula RC. Electropolymerized-molecularly imprinted polymers (E-MIPS) as sensing elements for the detection of dengue infection. Anal Bioanal Chem 2021; 414:1347-1357. [PMID: 34750643 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-021-03757-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2021] [Revised: 10/12/2021] [Accepted: 10/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
A straightforward in situ detection method for dengue infection was demonstrated through the molecular imprinting of a dengue nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) epitope into an electropolymerized molecularly imprinted polyterthiophene (E-MIP) film sensor. The key enabling step in the sensor fabrication is based on an epitope imprinting strategy, in which short peptide sequences derived from the original target molecules were employed as the main template for detection and analysis. The formation of the E-MIP sensor films was facilitated using cyclic voltammetry (CV) and monitored in situ by electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (EC-QCM). Surface properties were analyzed using different techniques including atomic force microscopy (AFM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and polarization modulation-infrared reflection-adsorption (PM-IRRAS). The standard calibration curve (R = 0.9830) was generated for the detection of the epitope, Ac-VHTWTEQYKFQ-NH2, with a linear range of 0.2 to 30 μg/mL and detection limit of 0.073 μg/mL. A separate calibration curve (R = 0.9786) was obtained using spiked buffered solutions of dengue NS1 protein, which resulted in a linear range of 0.2 to 10 μg/mL and a detection limit of 0.056 μg/mL. The fabricated E-MIP sensor exhibited long-term stability, high sensitivity, and good selectivity towards the targeted molecules. These results indicated that the formation of the exact and stable cavity imprints in terms of size, shape, and functionalities was successful. In our future work, we aim to use our E-MIP sensors for NS1 detection in real-life samples such as serum and blood.
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- Clarisse E Buensuceso
- Institute of Chemistry, College of Science, University of the Philippines Diliman, 1101, Quezon City, Philippines
- Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-1762, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-1762, USA
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- Institute of Chemistry, College of Science, University of the Philippines Diliman, 1101, Quezon City, Philippines
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- Institute of Chemistry, College of Science, University of the Philippines Diliman, 1101, Quezon City, Philippines
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Joint Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- Institute of Chemistry, College of Science, University of the Philippines Diliman, 1101, Quezon City, Philippines
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- Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA.
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Joint Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA.
- Center for Nanophase Materials and Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37830, USA.
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Simo Tchetgna H, Sado Yousseu F, Kamgang B, Tedjou A, McCall PJ, Wondji CS. Concurrent circulation of dengue serotype 1, 2 and 3 among acute febrile patients in Cameroon. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2021; 15:e0009860. [PMID: 34695135 PMCID: PMC8568189 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2021] [Revised: 11/04/2021] [Accepted: 09/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Acute febrile patients presenting at hospitals in Douala, Cameroon between July and December 2020, were screened for dengue infections using real time RT-PCR on fragments of the 5’ and 3’ UTR genomic regions. In total, 12.8% (41/320) of cases examined were positive for dengue. Dengue virus 3 (DENV-3) was the most common serotype found (68.3%), followed by DENV-2 (19.5%) and DENV-1 (4.9%). Co-infections of DENV-3 and DENV-2 were found in 3 cases. Jaundice and headache were the most frequent clinical signs associated with infection and 56% (23/41) of the cases were co-infections with malaria. Phylogenetic analysis of the envelope gene identified DENV-1 as belonging to genotype V, DENV-2 to genotype II and DENV-3 to genotype III. The simultaneous occurrence of three serotypes in Douala reveals dengue as a serious public health threat for Cameroon and highlights the need for further epidemiological studies in the major cities of this region. Acute febrile patients presenting at hospitals in Douala, Cameroon between July and December 2020, were screened for dengue infections by Polymerase chain reaction. In total, 12.8% (41/320) of cases examined were infected by dengue virus. Dengue virus 3 (DENV-3) was the most common serotype found (68.3%), followed by DENV-2 (19.5%) and DENV-1 (4.9%). Co-infections of DENV-3 and DENV-2 were found in 3 cases. Jaundice and headache were the most frequent clinical signs associated with infection and 56% (23/41) of the cases were co-infections with malaria. The simultaneous occurrence of three serotypes in Douala reveals dengue as a serious public health threat for Cameroon and highlights the need for further epidemiological studies in the major cities of this region.
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- Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases, Yaoundé, Cameroon
- University of Buéa, Buéa, Cameroon
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- Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases, Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases, Yaoundé, Cameroon
- University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases, Yaoundé, Cameroon
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Fourié T, El Bara A, Dubot-Pérès A, Grard G, Briolant S, Basco LK, Ouldabdallahi Moukah M, Leparc-Goffart I. Emergence of dengue virus serotype 2 in Mauritania and molecular characterization of its circulation in West Africa. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2021; 15:e0009829. [PMID: 34695119 PMCID: PMC8568173 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2020] [Revised: 11/04/2021] [Accepted: 09/21/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The number of sporadic and epidemic dengue fever cases have reportedly been increasing in recent years in some West African countries, such as Senegal and Mali. The first epidemic of laboratory-confirmed dengue occurred in Nouakchott, the capital city of Mauritania situated in the Saharan desert, in 2014. On-site diagnosis of dengue fever was established using a rapid diagnostic test for dengue. In parallel, the presence of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in the city was confirmed. The initial diagnosis was confirmed by RT-PCR, which showed that all samples from the 2014 dengue epidemic in Nouakchott were dengue virus serotype 2 (DENV-2). The whole genome or envelope protein gene of these strains, together with other DENV-2 strains obtained from travelers returning from West African countries to France between 2016 and 2019 (including two Mauritanian strains in 2017 and 2018), were sequenced. Phylogenetic analysis suggested a recent emergence of an epidemic strain from the cosmopolitan genotype belonging to West African cosmopolitan lineage II, which is genetically distinct from African sylvatic genotype. The origin of this DENV-2 lineage is still unknown, but our data seem to suggest a recent and rapid dispersion of the epidemic strain throughout the region. More complete genome sequences of West African DENV-2 are required for a better understanding of the dynamics of its circulation. Arboviral surveillance and outbreak forecasting are urgently needed in West Africa. In Africa, dengue viruses 1 to 4 are transmitted to primates by Aedes mosquitoes in a sylvatic cycle or an urban/epidemic cycle involving humans. Infection in humans may be asymptomatic or may range from mild flu-like illness to severe hemorrhagic fever. The dengue viruses have a pantropical distribution, mostly in urbanized areas where vectors have become well adapted. This report shows dengue can also emerge in desert areas, as seen for the first time in an outbreak in 2014 in Nouakchott, Mauritania, where climatic, environmental, and human behavioral changes favor the emergence of Aedes mosquitoes. Dengue virus 2 was found in multiple human samples collected during the outbreak. Genomic analysis of dengue virus 2 isolates from the Mauritanian outbreak and from infected travelers revealed the rapid emergence of a specific “West African epidemic strain” of the virus throughout West Africa during the last decade, which is distinct from other strains found elsewhere and from historical or sylvatic strains. More genomic data would help us understand the circulation of dengue virus in West Africa, to help forecast and mitigate outbreaks in this region.
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- Toscane Fourié
- Unité des Virus Emergents (UVE), Aix Marseille Université - IRD 190—INSERM 1207, Marseille, France
- Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées, Marseille, France
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- Institut National de Recherche en Santé Publique, Nouakchott, Mauritania
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- Unité des Virus Emergents (UVE), Aix Marseille Université - IRD 190—INSERM 1207, Marseille, France
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- Unité des Virus Emergents (UVE), Aix Marseille Université - IRD 190—INSERM 1207, Marseille, France
- Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées, Marseille, France
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- Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées, Marseille, France
- Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France
- IHU—Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France
- IHU—Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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- Unité de Recherche Génomes et Milieux, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université de Nouakchott Al-Aasriya, Nouakchott, Mauritania
- Initiative mauritanienne pour la lutte contre les maladies endémiques “MEDCINGO” Nouakchott, Mauritania
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- Unité des Virus Emergents (UVE), Aix Marseille Université - IRD 190—INSERM 1207, Marseille, France
- Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées, Marseille, France
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Navero-Castillejos J, Benitez R, Torner N, Muñoz J, Camprubí-Ferrer D, Peiró-Mestres A, Sulleiro E, Silgado A, Gonzalo V, Falgueras T, Alejo-Cancho I, Roldán M, Plasencia V, Albarracin R, Perez J, Navarro A, Calderón A, Rubio R, Navarro M, Micó M, Llaberia J, Navarro M, Barrachina J, Vilamala A, Martí C, Pulido MÁ, Sanchez-Seco MP, Vazquez A, Martínez A, Jané M, Martínez MJ. Molecular Characterization of Imported and Autochthonous Dengue in Northeastern Spain. Viruses 2021; 13:1910. [PMID: 34696340 PMCID: PMC8539074 DOI: 10.3390/v13101910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2021] [Revised: 09/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Abstract
Dengue is the most significant arbovirus worldwide and a public health threat to non-endemic areas in which Aedes vectors are present. Autochthonous dengue transmission has been reported in several European countries in the last decade. Infected travelers from endemic regions arriving to areas colonized by Aedes albopictus in Europe need to be monitored in surveillance and control programs. We aimed to perform molecular characterization of RT-PCR-positive dengue cases detected in Catalonia, northeastern Spain, from 2013 to 2018. The basic demographic information and the geographical regions of importation were also analyzed. One-hundred four dengue cases were studied (103 imported infections and the first autochthonous case in our region). The dengue virus strains detected were serotyped and genotyped using molecular methods, and phylogenetic analyses were conducted. All four dengue serotypes were detected in travelers, including up to 10 different genotypes, reflecting the global circulation of dengue in endemic areas. The primary travel-related case of the 2018 autochthonous transmission was not identified, but the molecular analysis revealed dengue serotype 1, genotype I of Asian origin. Our results highlight the diversity of imported dengue virus strains and the role of molecular epidemiology in supporting arbovirus surveillance programs.
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- Jessica Navero-Castillejos
- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain; (J.N.-C.); (A.P.-M.); (V.G.); (I.A.-C.); (R.A.); (A.N.); (M.N.); (J.B.)
- Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain; (J.M.); (D.C.-F.); (M.R.)
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- North Metropolitan International Health Unit PROSICS, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, 08916 Badalona, Spain;
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- CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health CIBERESP, University of Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain;
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- Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain; (J.M.); (D.C.-F.); (M.R.)
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- Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain; (J.M.); (D.C.-F.); (M.R.)
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain; (J.N.-C.); (A.P.-M.); (V.G.); (I.A.-C.); (R.A.); (A.N.); (M.N.); (J.B.)
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- Department of Microbiology, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, PROSICS, 08035 Barcelona, Spain; (E.S.); (A.S.)
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- Department of Microbiology, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, PROSICS, 08035 Barcelona, Spain; (E.S.); (A.S.)
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain; (J.N.-C.); (A.P.-M.); (V.G.); (I.A.-C.); (R.A.); (A.N.); (M.N.); (J.B.)
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- Hospital Municipal de Badalona, Badalona Serveis Assistencials, 08911 Badalona, Spain; (T.F.); (A.C.)
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain; (J.N.-C.); (A.P.-M.); (V.G.); (I.A.-C.); (R.A.); (A.N.); (M.N.); (J.B.)
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- Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain; (J.M.); (D.C.-F.); (M.R.)
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- Microbiology Laboratory, Catlab, 08232 Viladecavalls, Spain; (V.P.); (J.P.); (R.R.)
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain; (J.N.-C.); (A.P.-M.); (V.G.); (I.A.-C.); (R.A.); (A.N.); (M.N.); (J.B.)
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- Microbiology Laboratory, Catlab, 08232 Viladecavalls, Spain; (V.P.); (J.P.); (R.R.)
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain; (J.N.-C.); (A.P.-M.); (V.G.); (I.A.-C.); (R.A.); (A.N.); (M.N.); (J.B.)
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- Hospital Municipal de Badalona, Badalona Serveis Assistencials, 08911 Badalona, Spain; (T.F.); (A.C.)
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- Microbiology Laboratory, Catlab, 08232 Viladecavalls, Spain; (V.P.); (J.P.); (R.R.)
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain; (J.N.-C.); (A.P.-M.); (V.G.); (I.A.-C.); (R.A.); (A.N.); (M.N.); (J.B.)
- Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain; (J.M.); (D.C.-F.); (M.R.)
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- Microbiology Department, Xarxa Assistencial Universitària de Manresa, 08243 Manresa, Spain;
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- Hospital de Barcelona, Societat Cooperativa d’Instal·lacions Assistencials Sanitàries (SCIAS), 08034 Barcelona, Spain;
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- Microbiology Department, Hospital Universitari de Vic, 08500 Barcelona, Spain; (M.N.); (A.V.)
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain; (J.N.-C.); (A.P.-M.); (V.G.); (I.A.-C.); (R.A.); (A.N.); (M.N.); (J.B.)
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- Microbiology Department, Hospital Universitari de Vic, 08500 Barcelona, Spain; (M.N.); (A.V.)
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- Hospital General de Granollers, 08402 Granollers, Spain; (C.M.); (M.Á.P.)
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- Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28222 Madrid, Spain; (M.P.S.-S.); (A.V.)
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- Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28222 Madrid, Spain; (M.P.S.-S.); (A.V.)
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Public Health Agency of Catalonia, Generalitat of Catalonia, 08005 Barcelona, Spain; (A.M.); (M.J.)
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- Public Health Agency of Catalonia, Generalitat of Catalonia, 08005 Barcelona, Spain; (A.M.); (M.J.)
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain; (J.N.-C.); (A.P.-M.); (V.G.); (I.A.-C.); (R.A.); (A.N.); (M.N.); (J.B.)
- Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain; (J.M.); (D.C.-F.); (M.R.)
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Takemura K. Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR)- and Localized SPR (LSPR)-Based Virus Sensing Systems: Optical Vibration of Nano- and Micro-Metallic Materials for the Development of Next-Generation Virus Detection Technology. Biosensors (Basel) 2021; 11:250. [PMID: 34436053 PMCID: PMC8391291 DOI: 10.3390/bios11080250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2021] [Revised: 07/13/2021] [Accepted: 07/23/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
Abstract
The global damage that a widespread viral infection can cause is evident from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The importance of virus detection to prevent the spread of viruses has been reaffirmed by the pandemic and the associated social and economic damage. Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) in microscale and localized SPR (LSPR) in nanoscale virus sensing systems are thought to be useful as next-generation detection methods. Many studies have been conducted on ultra-sensitive technologies, especially those based on signal amplification. In some cases, it has been reported that even a low viral load can be measured, indicating that the virus can be detected in patients even in the early stages of the viral infection. These findings corroborate that SPR and LSPR are effective in minimizing false-positives and false-negatives that are prevalent in the existing virus detection techniques. In this review, the methods and signal responses of SPR and LSPR-based virus detection technologies are summarized. Furthermore, this review surveys some of the recent developments reported and discusses the limitations of SPR and LSPR-based virus detection as the next-generation detection technologies.
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- Kenshin Takemura
- Sensing System Research Center, The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 07-1 Shuku-Machi, Tosu 841-0052, Japan
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Utarini A, Indriani C, Ahmad RA, Tantowijoyo W, Arguni E, Ansari MR, Supriyati E, Wardana DS, Meitika Y, Ernesia I, Nurhayati I, Prabowo E, Andari B, Green BR, Hodgson L, Cutcher Z, Rancès E, Ryan PA, O'Neill SL, Dufault SM, Tanamas SK, Jewell NP, Anders KL, Simmons CP. Efficacy of Wolbachia-Infected Mosquito Deployments for the Control of Dengue. N Engl J Med 2021; 384:2177-2186. [PMID: 34107180 PMCID: PMC8103655 DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa2030243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 209] [Impact Index Per Article: 69.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with the wMel strain of Wolbachia pipientis are less susceptible than wild-type A. aegypti to dengue virus infection. METHODS We conducted a cluster-randomized trial involving releases of wMel-infected A. aegypti mosquitoes for the control of dengue in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. We randomly assigned 12 geographic clusters to receive deployments of wMel-infected A. aegypti (intervention clusters) and 12 clusters to receive no deployments (control clusters). All clusters practiced local mosquito-control measures as usual. A test-negative design was used to assess the efficacy of the intervention. Patients with acute undifferentiated fever who presented to local primary care clinics and were 3 to 45 years of age were recruited. Laboratory testing was used to identify participants who had virologically confirmed dengue (VCD) and those who were test-negative controls. The primary end point was symptomatic VCD of any severity caused by any dengue virus serotype. RESULTS After successful introgression of wMel into the intervention clusters, 8144 participants were enrolled; 3721 lived in intervention clusters, and 4423 lived in control clusters. In the intention-to-treat analysis, VCD occurred in 67 of 2905 participants (2.3%) in the intervention clusters and in 318 of 3401 (9.4%) in the control clusters (aggregate odds ratio for VCD, 0.23; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.15 to 0.35; P = 0.004). The protective efficacy of the intervention was 77.1% (95% CI, 65.3 to 84.9) and was similar against the four dengue virus serotypes. The incidence of hospitalization for VCD was lower among participants who lived in intervention clusters (13 of 2905 participants [0.4%]) than among those who lived in control clusters (102 of 3401 [3.0%]) (protective efficacy, 86.2%; 95% CI, 66.2 to 94.3). CONCLUSIONS Introgression of wMel into A. aegypti populations was effective in reducing the incidence of symptomatic dengue and resulted in fewer hospitalizations for dengue among the participants. (Funded by the Tahija Foundation and others; AWED ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT03055585; Indonesia Registry number, INA-A7OB6TW.).
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- Adi Utarini
- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
| | - Indah Nurhayati
- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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- From the World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta, Center for Tropical Medicine (A.U., C.I., R.A.A., W.T., E.A., M.R.A., E.S., D.S.W., Y.M., I.E., I.N., E.P.), the Department of Health Policy and Management (A.U.), the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health (C.I., R.A.A.), and the Department of Child Health (E.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (S.M.D., N.P.J.); the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (N.P.J.); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (C.P.S.); and the World Mosquito Program, Institute of Vector-Borne Disease, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia (B.A., B.R.G., L.H., Z.C., E.R., P.A.R., S.L.O., S.M.D., S.K.T., K.L.A., C.P.S.)
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Lim JK, Chanthavanich P, Limkittikul K, Lee JS, Sirivichayakul C, Lee KS, Lim SK, Yoon IK, Hattasingh W. Clinical and epidemiologic characteristics associated with dengue fever in 2011-2016 in Bang Phae district, Ratchaburi province, Thailand. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2021; 15:e0009513. [PMID: 34191799 PMCID: PMC8244866 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2020] [Accepted: 05/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Dengue is a major public health problem in Thailand, but data are often focused on certain dengue-endemic areas. Methods: To better understand dengue epidemiology and clinical characteristics in Thailand, a fever surveillance study was conducted among patients aged 1-55 years, who presented with non-localized febrile illness at Bang Phae Community Hospital in Ratchaburi province, Thailand from October 2011 to September 2016. RESULTS Among 951 febrile episodes, 130 were dengue-confirmed. Individuals aged 10-14 years were mostly affected, followed by those 15-19 years-of-age, with about 15% of dengue-confirmed cases from adults 25 years and older. There were annual peaks of dengue occurrence between June-November. Most prevalent serotype in circulation was DENV-2 in 2012, DENV-3 in 2014, and DENV-4 & -3 in 2015. Among dengue cases, 65% were accurately detected using the dengue NS1 RDT. Detection rate was similar between secondary and primary dengue cases where 66% of secondary vs. 60% of primary dengue cases had positive results on the NS1 RDT. Among dengue cases, 66% were clinically diagnosed with suspected dengue or DHF, prior to lab confirmation. Dengue was positively associated with rash, headache, hematemesis and alterations to consciousness, when compared to non-dengue. Dengue patients were 10.6 times more likely to be hospitalized, compared to non-dengue cases. Among dengue cases, 95 were secondary and 35 were primary infections. There were 8 suspected DHF cases and all were identified to be secondary dengue. Secondary dengue cases were 3.5 times more likely to be hospitalized compared to primary dengue cases. Although the majority of our dengue-positive patients were secondary dengue cases, with few patients showing manifestations of DHF, our dengue cases were mostly mild disease. Even among children < 10 years-of-age, 61% had secondary infection and the rate of secondary infection increased with age. CONCLUSION While the majority of dengue-confirmed cases were children, almost three-quarters of dengue-confirmed cases in this study were secondary dengue. Our study results consistent with previous data from the country confirm the hyperendemic transmission of DENV in Thailand, even in the non-epidemic years. With various interventions becoming available for dengue prevention and control, including dengue vaccines, decision-making on future implementation strategies should be based on such burden of disease data.
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Oslo, Norway
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Fustec B, Phanitchat T, Aromseree S, Pientong C, Thaewnongiew K, Ekalaksananan T, Cerqueira D, Poinsignon A, Elguero E, Bangs MJ, Alexander N, Overgaard HJ, Corbel V. Serological biomarker for assessing human exposure to Aedes mosquito bites during a randomized vector control intervention trial in northeastern Thailand. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2021; 15:e0009440. [PMID: 34043621 PMCID: PMC8189451 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2020] [Revised: 06/09/2021] [Accepted: 05/04/2021] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
Abstract
Background Aedes mosquitoes are vectors for several major arboviruses of public health concern including dengue viruses. The relationships between Aedes infestation and disease transmission are complex wherein the epidemiological dynamics can be difficult to discern because of a lack of robust and sensitive indicators for predicting transmission risk. This study investigates the use of anti-Aedes saliva antibodies as a serological biomarker for Aedes mosquito bites to assess small scale variations in adult Aedes density and dengue virus (DENV) transmission risk in northeastern Thailand. Individual characteristics, behaviors/occupation and socio-demographics, climatic and epidemiological risk factors associated with human-mosquito exposure are also addressed. Methods The study was conducted within a randomized clustered control trial in Roi Et and Khon Kaen provinces over a consecutive 19 months period. Thirty-six (36) clusters were selected, each of ten houses. Serological and entomological surveys were conducted in all houses every four months and monthly in three sentinel households per cluster between September 2017 and April 2019 for blood spot collections and recording concurrent immature and adult Aedes indices. Additionally, the human exposure to Aedes mosquito bites (i.e., Mosquito Exposure Index or MEI) was estimated by ELISA measuring levels of human antibody response to the specific Nterm-34 kDa salivary antigen. The relationships between the MEI, vector infestation indices (adult and immature stages) and vector DENV infection were evaluated using a two-level (house and individual levels) mixed model analysis with one-month lag autoregressive correlation. Results There was a strong positive relationship between the MEI and adult Aedes (indoor and outdoor) density. Individuals from households with a medium mosquito density (mean difference: 0.091, p<0.001) and households with a high mosquito density (mean difference: 0.131, p<0.001) had higher MEI’s compared to individuals from households without Aedes. On a similar trend, individuals from households with a low, medium or high indoor Aedes densities (mean difference: 0.021, p<0.007, 0.053, p<0.0001 and 0.037, p<0.0001 for low, medium and high levels of infestation, respectively) had higher MEI than individuals from houses without indoor Aedes. The MEI was driven by individual characteristics, such as gender, age and occupation/behaviors, and varied according to climatic, seasonal factors and vector control intervention (p<0.05). Nevertheless, the study did not demonstrate a clear correlation between MEI and the presence of DENV-infected Aedes. Conclusion This study represents an important step toward the validation of the specific IgG response to the Aedes salivary peptide Nterm-34kDa as a proxy measure for Aedes infestation levels and human-mosquito exposure risk in a dengue endemic setting. The use of the IgG response to the Nterm-34 kDa peptide as a viable diagnostic tool for estimating dengue transmission requires further investigations and validation in other geographical and transmission settings. Aedes mosquitoes and the viruses they transmit are major public health concerns for over half of the global human population. However, the quantitative relationships between virus transmission and vector mosquito infestation remain unclear despite numerous indicators used to estimate transmission risk and predict dengue outbreaks. The aim of this study is to investigate the use of a salivary biomarker to assess the small-scale variation in human exposure to Aedes bites and the risk of dengue infection in the context of a vector control intervention in northeastern Thailand. A cohort of 539 persons visited every four months, including 161 individuals visited monthly, were recruited for routine serological and concurrent household entomological surveys during 19 consecutive months follow-up. Antibody response to Aedes bites was measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays to assess the mosquito exposure index (MEI) and association with the Aedes adult and immature abundance as well as the presence of dengue virus (DENV) in adult mosquitoes (transmission risk). Additionally, the individual (cohort), climatic, and vector control intervention risk factors associated with MEI are explored. This study demonstrates that the MEI was strongly related to household adult Aedes density, particularly indoors resting mosquitoes. Additionally, the MEI was influenced by individual characteristics (i.e., person age, gender, staying indoors), and varied according to seasons and intervention. Nonetheless, no clear relationship between MEI and dengue transmission risk (i.e., vector infection) was detected. This study demonstrated the potential usefulness of the MEI to assess heterogeneity in adult Aedes infestation indices that could assist public health authorities to rapidly identify mosquito “hot spots” and the timeliness of effective vector control interventions.
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- Benedicte Fustec
- Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
- MIVEGEC, Univ Montpellier, IRD, CNRS, Montpellier, France
- * E-mail: (BF); (VC)
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- Department of Medical Entomology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok
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- Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
- HPV & EBV and Carcinogenesis Research Group, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
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- Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
- HPV & EBV and Carcinogenesis Research Group, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
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- Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
- HPV & EBV and Carcinogenesis Research Group, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
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- Public Health & Malaria Control, International SOS, Mimika, Papua, Indonesia
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- MIVEGEC, Univ Montpellier, IRD, CNRS, Montpellier, France
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- Public Health & Malaria Control, International SOS, Mimika, Papua, Indonesia
- Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- MIVEGEC, Univ Montpellier, IRD, CNRS, Montpellier, France
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Xavier LL, Honório NA, Pessanha JFM, Peiter PC. Analysis of climate factors and dengue incidence in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0251403. [PMID: 34014989 PMCID: PMC8136695 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0251403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2020] [Accepted: 04/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Dengue is a re-emerging disease, currently considered the most important mosquito-borne arbovirus infection affecting humankind, taking into account both its morbidity and mortality. Brazil is considered an endemic country for dengue, such that more than 1,544,987 confirmed cases were notified in 2019, which means an incidence rate of 735 for every 100 thousand inhabitants. Climate is an important factor in the temporal and spatial distribution of vector-borne diseases, such as dengue. Thus, rainfall and temperature are considered macro-factors determinants for dengue, since they directly influence the population density of Aedes aegypti, which is subject to seasonal fluctuations, mainly due to these variables. This study examined the incidence of dengue fever related to the climate influence by using temperature and rainfall variables data obtained from remote sensing via artificial satellites in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The mathematical model that best fits the data is based on an auto-regressive moving average with exogenous inputs (ARMAX). It reproduced the values of incidence rates in the study period and managed to predict with good precision in a one-year horizon. The approach described in present work may be replicated in cities around the world by the public health managers, to build auxiliary operational tools for control and prevention tasks of dengue, as well of other arbovirus diseases.
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- Leandro Layter Xavier
- Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Tropical Medicine Program, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Hematozoan Transmitting Mosquito, Tropical Medicine Program, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Tropical Medicine Program, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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López MS, Jordan DI, Blatter E, Walker E, Gómez AA, Müller GV, Mendicino D, Robert MA, Estallo EL. Dengue emergence in the temperate Argentinian province of Santa Fe, 2009-2020. Sci Data 2021; 8:134. [PMID: 34016998 PMCID: PMC8137689 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-021-00914-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2020] [Accepted: 04/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Dengue virus (DENV) transmission occurs primarily in tropical and subtropical climates, but within the last decade it has extended to temperate regions. Santa Fe, a temperate province in Argentina, has experienced an increase in dengue cases and virus circulation since 2009, with the recent 2020 outbreak being the largest in the province to date. The aim of this work is to describe spatio-temporal fluctuations of dengue cases from 2009 to 2020 in Santa Fe Province. The data presented in this work provide a detailed description of DENV transmission for Santa Fe Province by department. These data are useful to assist in investigating drivers of dengue emergence in Santa Fe Province and for developing a better understanding of the drivers and the impacts of ongoing dengue emergence in temperate regions across the world. This work provides data useful for future studies including those investigating socio-ecological, climatic, and environmental factors associated with DENV transmission, as well as those investigating other variables related to the biology and the ecology of vector-borne diseases.
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- María S López
- Centro de Estudios de Variabilidad y Cambio Climático (CEVARCAM), Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Hídricas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Ciudad Universitaria, Paraje El Pozo, Santa Fe, Argentina
- Centro de Investigaciones sobre Endemias Nacionales (CIEN), Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Ciudad Universitaria, Paraje El Pozo, Santa Fe, Argentina
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Dirección de Bioquímica y Red de Laboratorios, Ministerio de Salud de la Provincia de Santa Fe, Bv Gálvez 1563 1er piso, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Centro de Estudios de Variabilidad y Cambio Climático (CEVARCAM), Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Hídricas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Ciudad Universitaria, Paraje El Pozo, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Centro de Estudios de Variabilidad y Cambio Climático (CEVARCAM), Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Hídricas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Ciudad Universitaria, Paraje El Pozo, Santa Fe, Argentina
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Centro de Estudios de Variabilidad y Cambio Climático (CEVARCAM), Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Hídricas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Ciudad Universitaria, Paraje El Pozo, Santa Fe, Argentina
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Centro de Estudios de Variabilidad y Cambio Climático (CEVARCAM), Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Hídricas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Ciudad Universitaria, Paraje El Pozo, Santa Fe, Argentina
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Centro de Investigaciones sobre Endemias Nacionales (CIEN), Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Ciudad Universitaria, Paraje El Pozo, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1015 Floyd Ave., Richmond, VA, 23284, USA
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Santa Fe, Argentina.
- Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas y Tecnológicas (IIBYT) CONICET- Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Centro de Investigaciones Entomológicas de Córdoba, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Av. Vélez Sarsfield 1611, CP (X5016GCA), Ciudad Universitaria, Córdoba Capital, Argentina.
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Bohning K, Sonnberg S, Chen HL, Zahralban-Steele M, Powell T, Hather G, Patel HK, Dean HJ. A high throughput reporter virus particle microneutralization assay for quantitation of Zika virus neutralizing antibodies in multiple species. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0250516. [PMID: 33891631 PMCID: PMC8064526 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2020] [Accepted: 04/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Zika virus is a Flavivirus, transmitted via Aedes mosquitos, that causes a range of symptoms including Zika congenital syndrome. Zika has posed a challenging situation for health, public and economic sectors of affected countries. To quantitate Zika virus neutralizing antibody titers in serum samples, we developed a high throughput plate based Zika virus reporter virus particle (RVP) assay that uses an infective, non-replicating particle encoding Zika virus surface proteins and capsid (CprME) and a reporter gene (Renilla luciferase). This is the first characterization of a Zika virus RVP assay in 384-well format using a Dengue replicon Renilla reporter construct. Serially diluted test sera were incubated with RVPs, followed by incubation with Vero cells. RVPs that have not been neutralized by antibodies in the test sera entered the cells and expressed Renilla luciferase. Quantitative measurements of neutralizing activity were determined using a plate-based assay and commercially available substrate. The principle of limiting the infection to a single round increases the precision of the assay measurements. RVP log10EC50 titers correlated closely with titers determined using a plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT) (R2>95%). The plate-based Zika virus RVP assay also demonstrated high levels of precision, reproducibility and throughput. The assay employs identical reagents for human, rhesus macaque and mouse serum matrices. Spiking studies indicated that the assay performs equally well in different species, producing comparable titers irrespective of the serum species. The assay is conducted in 384-well plates and can be automated to simultaneously achieve high throughput and high reproducibility.
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- Kelly Bohning
- Takeda Vaccines, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Takeda Vaccines, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Takeda Vaccines, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Takeda Vaccines, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Takeda Vaccines, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Takeda Vaccines, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Takeda Vaccines, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Adelino TÉR, Giovanetti M, Fonseca V, Xavier J, de Abreu ÁS, do Nascimento VA, Demarchi LHF, Oliveira MAA, da Silva VL, de Mello ALES, Cunha GM, Santos RH, de Oliveira EC, Júnior JAC, de Melo Iani FC, de Filippis AMB, de Abreu AL, de Jesus R, de Albuquerque CFC, Rico JM, do Carmo Said RF, Silva JA, de Moura NFO, Leite P, Frutuoso LCV, Haddad SK, Martínez A, Barreto FK, Vazquez CC, da Cunha RV, Araújo ELL, de Oliveira Tosta SF, de Araújo Fabri A, Chalhoub FLL, da Silva Lemos P, de Bruycker-Nogueira F, de Castro Lichs GG, Zardin MCSU, Segovia FMC, Gonçalves CCM, Grillo ZDCF, Slavov SN, Pereira LA, Mendonça AF, Pereira FM, de Magalhães JJF, Dos Santos Júnior ADCM, de Lima MM, Nogueira RMR, Góes-Neto A, de Carvalho Azevedo VA, Ramalho DB, Oliveira WK, Macario EM, de Medeiros AC, Pimentel V, Holmes EC, de Oliveira T, Lourenço J, Alcantara LCJ. Field and classroom initiatives for portable sequence-based monitoring of dengue virus in Brazil. Nat Commun 2021; 12:2296. [PMID: 33863880 PMCID: PMC8052316 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22607-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2020] [Accepted: 03/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Brazil experienced a large dengue virus (DENV) epidemic in 2019, highlighting a continuous struggle with effective control and public health preparedness. Using Oxford Nanopore sequencing, we led field and classroom initiatives for the monitoring of DENV in Brazil, generating 227 novel genome sequences of DENV1-2 from 85 municipalities (2015-2019). This equated to an over 50% increase in the number of DENV genomes from Brazil available in public databases. Using both phylogenetic and epidemiological models we retrospectively reconstructed the recent transmission history of DENV1-2. Phylogenetic analysis revealed complex patterns of transmission, with both lineage co-circulation and replacement. We identified two lineages within the DENV2 BR-4 clade, for which we estimated the effective reproduction number and pattern of seasonality. Overall, the surveillance outputs and training initiative described here serve as a proof-of-concept for the utility of real-time portable sequencing for research and local capacity building in the genomic surveillance of emerging viruses.
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- Talita Émile Ribeiro Adelino
- Laboratório Central de Saúde Pública do Estado de Minas Gerais, Fundação Ezequiel Dias, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Flavivírus, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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- Laboratório de Flavivírus, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Flavivírus, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Flavivírus, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia de Doenças Transmissíveis na Amazônia, Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane, Fiocruz, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Laboratório Central de Saúde Pública Dr. Milton Bezerra Sobral, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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- Laboratório Central de Saúde Pública do Estado de Minas Gerais, Fundação Ezequiel Dias, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Flavivírus, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Coordenação Geral dos Laboratórios de Saúde Pública, Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde, Ministério da Saúde, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Coordenação Geral dos Laboratórios de Saúde Pública, Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde, Ministério da Saúde, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde/Organização Mundial da Saúde, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Coordenação Geral das Arboviroses, Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde/Ministério da Saúde, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Coordenação Geral das Arboviroses, Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde/Ministério da Saúde, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Coordenação Geral das Arboviroses, Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde/Ministério da Saúde, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Coordenação Geral das Arboviroses, Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde/Ministério da Saúde, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Coordenação Geral dos Laboratórios de Saúde Pública, Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde, Ministério da Saúde, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Flavivírus, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Flavivírus, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratório Central de Saúde Pública Dr. Giovanni Cysneiros, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
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- Laboratório Central de Saúde Pública Dr. Giovanni Cysneiros, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Flavivírus, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Secretaria de Saúde do Estado de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, School of Life and Environmental Sciences and School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
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- Department of Zoology, Peter Medawar Building, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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- Laboratório de Flavivírus, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Nkenfou CN, Fainguem N, Dongmo-Nguefack F, Yatchou LG, Kameni JJK, Elong EL, Samie A, Estrin W, Koki PN, Ndjolo A. Enhanced passive surveillance dengue infection among febrile children: Prevalence, co-infections and associated factors in Cameroon. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2021; 15:e0009316. [PMID: 33861747 PMCID: PMC8051767 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2020] [Accepted: 03/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Dengue virus (DENV) causes a spectrum of diseases ranging from asymptomatic, mild febrile to a life-threatening illness: dengue hemorrhagic fever. The main clinical symptom of dengue is fever, similar to that of malaria. The prevalence of dengue virus infection, alone or in association with other endemic infectious diseases in children in Cameroon is unknown. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of dengue, malaria and HIV in children presenting with fever and associated risk factors. Dengue overall prevalence was 20.2%, Malaria cases were 52.7% and HIV cases represented 12.6%. The prevalence of dengue-HIV co-infection was 6.0% and that of Malaria-dengue co-infection was 19.5%. Triple infection prevalence was 4.3%. Dengue virus infection is present in children and HIV-Dengue or Dengue- Malaria co-infections are common. Dengue peak prevalence was between August and October. Sex and age were not associated with dengue and dengue co-infections. However, malaria as well as HIV were significantly associated with dengue (P = 0.001 and 0.028 respectively). The diagnosis of dengue and Malaria should be carried out routinely for better management of fever. Fever is a symptom common to several infectious diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever and typhoid which are all present in Cameroon. In most cases, fever in Cameroon is assumed to be due to malaria and treated as such. This study present the prevalence of dengue fever among febrile children. Dengue fever as well as malaria is common among Cameroonian children. Since Cameroon is endemic for malaria, fever may indicate either malaria or dengue. Clinicians should be aware of the presence of dengue in Cameroon. Knowing the risk factors, parents are encouraged to use the bed net to protect their children and clean stagnant water from their environment. Children could be co-infected by dengue, malaria as well as HIV. Management of patients with dengue fever and HIV infection should be studied, especially in infants where both viral diseases are more severe. Close monitoring may prevent complications among HIV-infected individuals who contract dengue fever.
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- Celine Nguefeu Nkenfou
- “Chantal Biya” International Reference Centre for Research on HIV and AIDS Prevention and Management (CIRCB), Yaoundé, Cameroon
- University of Yaoundé I, Higher Teachers’ Training College, Department of Biology, Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- “Chantal Biya” International Reference Centre for Research on HIV and AIDS Prevention and Management (CIRCB), Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- Mother and Child Centre of the Chantal Biya Foundation, Pediatric Service, Yaoundé, Cameroon
- University of Yaoundé I, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- “Chantal Biya” International Reference Centre for Research on HIV and AIDS Prevention and Management (CIRCB), Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- “Chantal Biya” International Reference Centre for Research on HIV and AIDS Prevention and Management (CIRCB), Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- “Chantal Biya” International Reference Centre for Research on HIV and AIDS Prevention and Management (CIRCB), Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Venda, Venda, South Africa
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- California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States of America
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- Mother and Child Centre of the Chantal Biya Foundation, Pediatric Service, Yaoundé, Cameroon
- University of Yaoundé I, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- “Chantal Biya” International Reference Centre for Research on HIV and AIDS Prevention and Management (CIRCB), Yaoundé, Cameroon
- University of Yaoundé I, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Yaoundé, Cameroon
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Cunha MDP, Duarte-Neto AN, Pour SZ, Hajjar LA, Frassetto FP, Dolhnikoff M, Saldiva PHDN, Zanotto PMDA. Systemic dengue infection associated with a new dengue virus type 2 introduction in Brazil - a case report. BMC Infect Dis 2021; 21:311. [PMID: 33794785 PMCID: PMC8015031 DOI: 10.1186/s12879-021-05959-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2020] [Accepted: 03/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Dengue infection is caused by an arbovirus with a wide range of presentations, varying from asymptomatic disease to unspecific febrile illness and haemorrhagic syndrome with shock, which can evolve to death. In Brazil, the virus circulates since the 1980s with many introductions of new serotypes, genotypes, and lineages since then. Here we report a fatal case of dengue associated with a Dengue virus (DENV) lineage not detected in the country until now. CASE PRESENTATION The patient, a 58-year-old man arrived at the hospital complaining of fever and severe abdominal pain due to intense gallbladder edema, mimicking acute abdomen. After 48 h of hospital admission, he evolved to refractory shock and death. DENV RNA was detected in all tissues collected (heart, lung, brain, kidney, spleen, pancreas, liver, and testis). Viral sequencing has shown that the virus belongs to serotype 2, American/Asian genotype, in a new clade, which has never been identified in Brazil before. The virus was phylogenetically related to isolates from central America [Puerto Rico (2005-2007), Martinique (2005), and Guadeloupe (2006)], most likely arriving in Brazil from Puerto Rico. CONCLUSION In summary, this was the first fatal documented case with systemic dengue infection associated with the new introduction of Dengue type 2 virus in Brazil during the 2019 outbreak.
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- Marielton Dos Passos Cunha
- Laboratory of Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics, Department of Microbiology, Biomedical Sciences Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
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- Laboratory of Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics, Department of Microbiology, Biomedical Sciences Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Intensive Care Unit, Heart Institute (InCor), Medical School, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Pathology Department, Medical School, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics, Department of Microbiology, Biomedical Sciences Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Nosrat C, Altamirano J, Anyamba A, Caldwell JM, Damoah R, Mutuku F, Ndenga B, LaBeaud AD. Impact of recent climate extremes on mosquito-borne disease transmission in Kenya. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2021; 15:e0009182. [PMID: 33735293 PMCID: PMC7971569 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2020] [Accepted: 01/26/2021] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Climate change and variability influence temperature and rainfall, which impact vector abundance and the dynamics of vector-borne disease transmission. Climate change is projected to increase the frequency and intensity of extreme climate events. Mosquito-borne diseases, such as dengue fever, are primarily transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Freshwater availability and temperature affect dengue vector populations via a variety of biological processes and thus influence the ability of mosquitoes to effectively transmit disease. However, the effect of droughts, floods, heat waves, and cold waves is not well understood. Using vector, climate, and dengue disease data collected between 2013 and 2019 in Kenya, this retrospective cohort study aims to elucidate the impact of extreme rainfall and temperature on mosquito abundance and the risk of arboviral infections. To define extreme periods of rainfall and land surface temperature (LST), we calculated monthly anomalies as deviations from long-term means (1983–2019 for rainfall, 2000–2019 for LST) across four study locations in Kenya. We classified extreme climate events as the upper and lower 10% of these calculated LST or rainfall deviations. Monthly Ae. aegypti abundance was recorded in Kenya using four trapping methods. Blood samples were also collected from children with febrile illness presenting to four field sites and tested for dengue virus using an IgG enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR). We found that mosquito eggs and adults were significantly more abundant one month following an abnormally wet month. The relationship between mosquito abundance and dengue risk follows a non-linear association. Our findings suggest that early warnings and targeted interventions during periods of abnormal rainfall and temperature, especially flooding, can potentially contribute to reductions in risk of viral transmission. Dengue is a rapidly spreading mosquito-borne disease transmitted primarily by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. As climate change leads to extremes in rainfall and temperature, the abundance and populations of these vectors will be affected, thus influencing transmission of dengue. Using satellite-derived climate data for Kenya, we classified months that experienced highly abnormal rainfall and temperature as extreme climate events (floods, droughts, heat waves, or cold waves). We compared the average monthly Ae. aegypti abundance and confirmed dengue counts following extreme climate months using lag periods of one month and two months, respectively. This study utilized several statistical models to account for differences among study sites and time. Floods resulted in significantly increased egg and adult abundance. Our results contributed to a better understanding of the effect of climate variability and change on dengue. As suggested by our observed increase in vector counts yet a relatively unchanged dengue infection risk, human behavior can help reduce viral transmission. Targeted interventions should be focused on both reducing vector populations and limiting human-vector contact, especially during these climate anomalies.
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- Cameron Nosrat
- Program in Human Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Universities Space Research Association & NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Morgan State University & NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, United States of America
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- Centre for Global Health Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya
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- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
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Fung CK, Li T, Pollett S, Alera MT, Yoon IK, Hang J, Macareo L, Srikiatkhachorn A, Ellison D, Rothman AL, Fernandez S, Jarman RG, Maljkovic Berry I. Effect of low-passage number on dengue consensus genomes and intra-host variant frequencies. J Gen Virol 2021; 102:001553. [PMID: 33591246 PMCID: PMC8515859 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.001553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2020] [Accepted: 12/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Intra-host single nucleotide variants (iSNVs) have been increasingly used in genomic epidemiology to increase phylogenetic resolution and reconstruct fine-scale outbreak dynamics. These analyses are preferably done on sequence data from direct clinical samples, but in many cases due to low viral loads, there might not be enough genetic material for deep sequencing and iSNV determination. Isolation of the virus from clinical samples with low-passage number increases viral load, but few studies have investigated how dengue virus (DENV) culture isolation from a clinical sample impacts the consensus sequence and the intra-host virus population frequencies. In this study, we investigate consensus and iSNV frequency differences between DENV sequenced directly from clinical samples and their corresponding low-passage isolates. Twenty five DENV1 and DENV2 positive sera and their corresponding viral isolates (T. splendens inoculation and C6/36 passage) were obtained from a prospective cohort study in the Philippines. These were sequenced on MiSeq with minimum nucleotide depth of coverage of 500×, and iSNVs were detected using LoFreq. For both DENV1 and DENV2, we found a maximum of one consensus nucleotide difference between clinical sample and isolate. Interestingly, we found that iSNVs with frequencies ≥5 % were often preserved between the samples, and that the number of iSNV positions, and sample diversity, at this frequency cutoff did not differ significantly between the sample pairs (clinical sample and isolate) in either DENV1 or DENV2 data. Our results show that low-passage DENV isolate consensus genomes are largely representative of their direct sample parental viruses, and that low-passage isolates often mirror high frequency within-host variants from direct samples.
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- Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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- Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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- Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, Washington, DC, USA
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- Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand
- University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA
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- Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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- Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand
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Torres MC, Lima de Mendonça MC, Damasceno dos Santos Rodrigues C, Fonseca V, Ribeiro MS, Brandão AP, Venâncio da Cunha R, Dias AI, Santos Vilas Boas L, Felix AC, Alves Pereira M, de Oliveira Pinto LM, Sakuntabhai A, Bispo de Filippis AM. Dengue Virus Serotype 2 Intrahost Diversity in Patients with Different Clinical Outcomes. Viruses 2021; 13:v13020349. [PMID: 33672226 PMCID: PMC7926750 DOI: 10.3390/v13020349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2020] [Revised: 02/07/2021] [Accepted: 02/13/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Intrahost genetic diversity is thought to facilitate arbovirus adaptation to changing environments and hosts, and it might also be linked to viral pathogenesis. Dengue virus serotype 2 (DENV-2) has circulated in Brazil since 1990 and is associated with severe disease and explosive outbreaks. Intending to shed light on the viral determinants for severe dengue pathogenesis, we sought to analyze the DENV-2 intrahost genetic diversity in 68 patient cases clinically classified as dengue fever (n = 31), dengue with warning signs (n = 19), and severe dengue (n = 18). Unlike previous DENV intrahost diversity studies whose approaches employed PCR, here we performed viral whole-genome deep sequencing from clinical samples with an amplicon-free approach, representing the real intrahost diversity scenario. Striking differences were detected in the viral population structure between the three clinical categories, which appear to be driven mainly by different infection times and selection pressures, rather than being linked with the clinical outcome itself. Diversity in the NS2B gene, however, showed to be constrained, irrespective of clinical outcome and infection time. Finally, 385 non-synonymous intrahost single-nucleotide variants located along the viral polyprotein, plus variants located in the untranslated regions, were consistently identified among the samples. Of them, 124 were exclusively or highly detected among cases with warning signs and among severe cases. However, there was no variant that by itself appeared to characterize the cases of greater severity, either due to its low intrahost frequency or the conservative effect on amino acid substitution. Although further studies are necessary to determine their real effect on viral proteins, this heightens the possibility of epistatic interactions. The present analysis represents an initial effort to correlate DENV-2 genetic diversity to its pathogenic potential and thus contribute to understanding the virus’s dynamics within its human host.
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- Maria Celeste Torres
- Laboratório de Flavivírus, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, 21040-360 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; (M.C.L.d.M.); (C.D.d.S.R.); (A.M.B.d.F.)
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- Laboratório de Flavivírus, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, 21040-360 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; (M.C.L.d.M.); (C.D.d.S.R.); (A.M.B.d.F.)
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- KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 4041 Durban, South Africa;
- Laboratório de Genética Celular e Molecular, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 31270-901 Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Coordenação Geral dos Laboratórios de Saúde Pública/Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde, Ministério da Saúde, (CGLAB/SVS-MS) Brasília, 70719-040 Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Superintendência Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 20031-142 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
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- Laboratório Central Noel Nutels/LACEN, 20231-092 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
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- Coordenação de Vigilância em Saúde e Laboratórios de Referência da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, 21040-360 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
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- Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, 05403-000 São Paulo, Brazil; (A.I.D.); (L.S.V.B.); (A.C.F.)
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- Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, 05403-000 São Paulo, Brazil; (A.I.D.); (L.S.V.B.); (A.C.F.)
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- Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, 05403-000 São Paulo, Brazil; (A.I.D.); (L.S.V.B.); (A.C.F.)
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- Functional Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Department of Global Health, Institut Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France;
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- Laboratório de Flavivírus, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, 21040-360 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; (M.C.L.d.M.); (C.D.d.S.R.); (A.M.B.d.F.)
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- Laboratório de Flavivírus, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, 21040-360 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; (M.C.L.d.M.); (C.D.d.S.R.); (A.M.B.d.F.)
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Belaunzarán-Zamudio PF, Mateja A, Guerra-de-Blas PDC, Rincón-León HA, Navarro-Fuentes K, Ruiz-Hernández E, Caballero-Sosa S, Camas-Durán F, Priego-Smith Z, Nájera-Cancino JG, López-Roblero A, del Carmen Trujillo-Murillo K, Powers JH, Hunsberger S, Siddiqui S, Beigel JH, Valdés-Salgado R, Ruiz-Palacios G. Comparison of clinical characteristics of Zika and dengue symptomatic infections and other acute illnesses of unidentified origin in Mexico. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2021; 15:e0009133. [PMID: 33591992 PMCID: PMC7909682 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2020] [Revised: 02/26/2021] [Accepted: 01/12/2021] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Our purpose was to provide a detailed clinical description, of symptoms and laboratory abnormalities, and temporality in patients with confirmed Zika and dengue infections, and other acute illnesses of unidentified origin (AIUO). METHODS/ PRINCIPAL FINDINGS This was a two-year, multicenter, observational, prospective, cohort study. We collected data from patients meeting the Pan American Health Organization's modified case-definition criteria for probable Zika infection. We identified Zika, dengue chikungunya by RT-PCR in serum and urine. We compared characteristics between patients with confirmed Zika and dengue infections, Zika and AIUO, and Dengue and AIUO at baseline, Days 3,7,28 and 180 of follow-up. Most episodes (67%) consistent with the PAHO definition of probable Zika could not be confirmed as due to any flavivirus and classified as Acute Illnesses of Unidentified Origin (AIUO). Infections by Zika and dengue accounted for 8.4% and 16% of episodes. Dengue patients presented with fever, generalized non-macular rash, arthralgia, and petechiae more frequently than patients with Zika during the first 10 days of symptoms. Dengue patients presented with more laboratory abnormalities (lower neutrophils, lymphocytosis, thrombocytopenia and abnormal liver function tests), with thrombocytopenia lasting for 28 days. Zika patients had conjunctivitis, photophobia and localized macular rash more frequently than others. Few differences persisted longer than 10 days after symptoms initiation: conjunctivitis in Zika infections, and self-reported rash and petechia in dengue infections. CONCLUSIONS Our study helps characterize the variety and duration of clinical features in patients with Zika, dengue and AIUO. The lack of diagnosis in most patients points to need for better diagnostics to assist clinicians in making specific etiologic diagnoses.
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- Pablo F. Belaunzarán-Zamudio
- Departamento de Infectología, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Clinical Monitoring Research Program Directorate, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
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- Unidad de Medicina Familiar No.11, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico
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- Unidad de Medicina Familiar No.11, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico
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- Clínica Hospital Dr. Roberto Nettel Flores, Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico
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- Clínica Hospital Dr. Roberto Nettel Flores, Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico
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- Clínica Hospital Dr. Roberto Nettel Flores, Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Departamento de Infectología, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
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Pahmeier F, Neufeldt CJ, Cerikan B, Prasad V, Pape C, Laketa V, Ruggieri A, Bartenschlager R, Cortese M. A Versatile Reporter System To Monitor Virus-Infected Cells and Its Application to Dengue Virus and SARS-CoV-2. J Virol 2021; 95:e01715-20. [PMID: 33257477 PMCID: PMC7851548 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01715-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2020] [Accepted: 11/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Positive-strand RNA viruses have been the etiological agents in several major disease outbreaks over the last few decades. Examples of this include flaviviruses, such as dengue virus and Zika virus, which cause millions of yearly infections around the globe, and coronaviruses, such as SARS-CoV-2, the source of the current pandemic. The severity of outbreaks caused by these viruses stresses the importance of research aimed at determining methods to limit virus spread and to curb disease severity. Such studies require molecular tools to decipher virus-host interactions and to develop effective treatments. Here, we describe the generation and characterization of a reporter system that can be used to visualize and identify cells infected with dengue virus or SARS-CoV-2. This system is based on viral protease activity that mediates cleavage and nuclear translocation of an engineered fluorescent protein stably expressed in cells. We show the suitability of this system for live cell imaging, for visualization of single infected cells, and for screening and testing of antiviral compounds. With the integrated modular building blocks, this system is easy to manipulate and can be adapted to any virus encoding a protease, thus offering a high degree of flexibility.IMPORTANCE Reporter systems are useful tools for fast and quantitative visualization of virus-infected cells within a host cell population. Here, we describe a reporter system that takes advantage of virus-encoded proteases expressed in infected cells to cleave an ER-anchored fluorescent protein fused to a nuclear localization sequence. Upon cleavage, the GFP moiety translocates to the nucleus, allowing for rapid detection of the infected cells. Using this system, we demonstrate reliable reporting activity for two major human pathogens from the Flaviviridae and the Coronaviridae families: dengue virus and SARS-CoV-2. We apply this reporter system to live cell imaging and use it for proof-of-concept to validate antiviral activity of a nucleoside analogue. This reporter system is not only an invaluable tool for the characterization of viral replication, but also for the discovery and development of antivirals that are urgently needed to halt the spread of these viruses.
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- Felix Pahmeier
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- HCI/IWR, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Center for Infection Research, Heidelberg partner site, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- German Center for Infection Research, Heidelberg partner site, Heidelberg, Germany
- Division "Virus-Associated Carcinogenesis", German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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Low SL, Leo YS, Lai YL, Lam S, Tan HH, Wong JCC, Tan LK, Ng LC. Evaluation of eight commercial Zika virus IgM and IgG serology assays for diagnostics and research. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0244601. [PMID: 33497414 PMCID: PMC7837473 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2020] [Accepted: 12/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Several commercial Zika virus (ZIKV) serology assays have been developed since the recognition of ZIKV outbreaks as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in 2016. However, test interpretation for ZIKV serology can be challenging due to antibody cross-reactivity with other flaviviruses like dengue virus (DENV). Therefore, we sought to evaluate the performance of eight commercially available ZIKV IgM and IgG assays across three testing platforms, namely, immunochromatographic tests (ICT), ELISAs and immunofluorescence tests (IIFT). The test panel comprised of 278 samples, including acute and convalescent sera or plasma from ZIKV-confirmed, DENV-confirmed, non-ZIKV and non-DENV patients, and residual sera from healthy blood donors. The ZIKV IgM and IgG serology assays yielded higher test sensitivities of 23.5% - 97.1% among ZIKV convalescent samples as compared to 5.6% - 27.8% among ZIKV acute samples; the test specificities were 63.3% - 100% among acute and convalescent DENV, non-DENV samples. Among the ELISAs and IIFTs, the Diapro ZIKV IgM ELISA demonstrated high test sensitivity (96%) and specificity (80%) when tested on early convalescent samples, while the Euroimmun ZIKV IgG ELISA yielded the highest test specificity of 97% - 100% on samples from non-ZIKV patients and healthy blood donors. For rapid ICTs, the LumiQuick IgM rapid ICT yielded low test sensitivity, suggesting its limited utility. We showed that commercial ZIKV IgM and IgG serology assays have differing test performances, with some having moderate to high test sensitivities and specificities when used in a dengue endemic setting, although there were limitations in IgG serology.
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- Swee Ling Low
- Environmental Health Institute, National Environment Agency, Singapore, Singapore
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- National Centre for Infectious Disease, Singapore, Singapore
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- Environmental Health Institute, National Environment Agency, Singapore, Singapore
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- Blood Services Group, Health Sciences Authority, Singapore, Singapore
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- Blood Services Group, Health Sciences Authority, Singapore, Singapore
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- Environmental Health Institute, National Environment Agency, Singapore, Singapore
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- Environmental Health Institute, National Environment Agency, Singapore, Singapore
- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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Gutu MA, Bekele A, Seid Y, Mohammed Y, Gemechu F, Woyessa AB, Tayachew A, Dugasa Y, Gizachew L, Idosa M, Tokarz RE, Sugerman D. Another dengue fever outbreak in Eastern Ethiopia-An emerging public health threat. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2021; 15:e0008992. [PMID: 33465086 PMCID: PMC7845954 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2020] [Revised: 01/29/2021] [Accepted: 11/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Background Dengue Fever (DF) is a viral disease primarily transmitted by Aedes (Ae.) aegypti mosquitoes. Outbreaks in Eastern Ethiopia were reported during 2014–2016. In May 2017, we investigated the first suspected DF outbreak from Kabridahar Town, Somali region (Eastern Ethiopia) to describe its magnitude, assess risk factors, and implement control measures. Methods Suspected DF cases were defined as acute febrile illness plus ≥2 symptoms (headache, fever, retro-orbital pain, myalgia, arthralgia, rash, or hemorrhage) in Kabridahar District residents. All reported cases were identified through medical record review and active searches. Severe dengue was defined as DF with severe organ impairment, severe hemorrhage, or severe plasma leakage. We conducted a neighborhood-matched case-control study using a subset of suspected cases and conveniently-selected asymptomatic community controls and interviewed participants to collect demographic and risk factor data. We tested sera by RT-PCR to detect dengue virus (DENV) and identify serotypes. Entomologists conducted mosquito surveys at community households to identify species and estimate larval density using the house index (HI), container index (CI) and Breteau index (BI), with BI≥20 indicating high density. Results We identified 101 total cases from May 12–31, 2017, including five with severe dengue (one death). The attack rate (AR) was 17/10,000. Of 21 tested samples, 15 (72%) were DENV serotype 2 (DENV 2). In the case-control study with 50 cases and 100 controls, a lack of formal education (AOR [Adjusted Odds Ratio] = 4.2, 95% CI [Confidence Interval] 1.6–11.2) and open water containers near the home (AOR = 3.0, 95% CI 1.2–7.5) were risk factors, while long-lasting insecticide treated-net (LLITN) usage (AOR = 0.21, 95% CI 0.05–0.79) was protective. HI and BI were 66/136 (49%) and 147 per 100 homes (147%) respectively, with 151/167 (90%) adult mosquitoes identified as Ae. aegypti. Conclusion The epidemiologic, entomologic, and laboratory investigation confirmed a DF outbreak. Mosquito indices were far above safe thresholds, indicating inadequate vector control. We recommended improved vector surveillance and control programs, including best practices in preserving water and disposal of open containers to reduce Aedes mosquito density. In 2017 an outbreak of Dengue fever (DF) was reported in Kabridahar Town, Ethiopia. This mosquito transmitted disease was recently detected in Ethiopia only four years prior, with this being the first time it was identified in the area. In response, our team was dispatched to confirm the presence of the disease, identify potential causes, and implement mitigation and control measures. We identified and compared suspected cases and suspected non-cases to identify the potential risk factors of infection. Laboratory confirmation of infection and disease-type was also performed. Due to the entomological nature of disease transmission, additional entomological investigations were conducted at the households of both groups to understand its influence at the household level. Through these measures, we were able to establish the presence of DF in Kabridahar Town and identify risk factors leading to infection. Risk factors included a lack of formal education and open water containers near the home, while the presence of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets were found to be protective. Mitigation and control measures were implemented to combat or promote the identified risk and protective factors respectively. Cases counts began to reduce five days after the onset of these measures. Recommendations were made based on our findings to prevent future outbreaks. The last case was recorded ten days after implementation of the mitigation and control measures.
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- Mulugeta Asefa Gutu
- Ethiopian Field Epidemiology Training Program, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- World Health Organization Country Office for Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Ethiopian Field Epidemiology Training Program, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Ethiopian Field Epidemiology Training Program, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Petrone ME, Earnest R, Lourenço J, Kraemer MUG, Paulino-Ramirez R, Grubaugh ND, Tapia L. Asynchronicity of endemic and emerging mosquito-borne disease outbreaks in the Dominican Republic. Nat Commun 2021; 12:151. [PMID: 33420058 PMCID: PMC7794562 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20391-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2020] [Accepted: 11/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Mosquito-borne viruses threaten the Caribbean due to the region's tropical climate and seasonal reception of international tourists. Outbreaks of chikungunya and Zika have demonstrated the rapidity with which these viruses can spread. Concurrently, dengue fever cases have climbed over the past decade. Sustainable disease control measures are urgently needed to quell virus transmission and prevent future outbreaks. Here, to improve upon current control methods, we analyze temporal and spatial patterns of chikungunya, Zika, and dengue outbreaks reported in the Dominican Republic between 2012 and 2018. The viruses that cause these outbreaks are transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, which are sensitive to seasonal climatological variability. We evaluate whether climate and the spatio-temporal dynamics of dengue outbreaks could explain patterns of emerging disease outbreaks. We find that emerging disease outbreaks were robust to the climatological and spatio-temporal constraints defining seasonal dengue outbreak dynamics, indicating that constant surveillance is required to prevent future health crises.
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- Mary E Petrone
- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA.
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Instituto de Medicina Tropical & Salud Global, Universidad Iberoamericana, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA
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- Instituto de Medicina Tropical & Salud Global, Universidad Iberoamericana, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
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Stanley J, Chongkolwatana V, Duong PT, Kitpoka P, Stramer SL, Dung NTT, Grimm KE, Pojanasingchod A, Suksomboonvong P, Galel SA. Detection of dengue, chikungunya, and Zika RNA in blood donors from Southeast Asia. Transfusion 2021; 61:134-143. [PMID: 33026130 PMCID: PMC7821136 DOI: 10.1111/trf.16110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2020] [Revised: 09/11/2020] [Accepted: 09/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND Chikungunya (CHIKV), dengue (DENV), and Zika (ZIKV) viruses are of concern due to the potential of transfusion transmission in blood, especially in regions such as Southeast Asia where the viruses are endemic. The recent availability of nucleic acid testing (NAT) to screen blood donations on an automated platform provides the opportunity to detect potentially infectious units in asymptomatic donors. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS Three thousand blood donations from Vietnam and 6000 from Thailand were screened with a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test (cobas CHIKV/DENV, Roche Diagnostics, Indianapolis, IN) and equal numbers on cobas Zika (Roche Diagnostics). Reactive samples were tested by alternative NAT with resolution of discordant results by heminested PCR. Throughput of simultaneous testing of the two assays on the cobas 8800 system (Roche Diagnostics) was evaluated. RESULTS In Vietnam, 9 of 3045 samples were reactive for DENV and all were confirmed, for a prevalence (with 95% confidence interval [CI]) of 0.296% (0.135-0.560). In Thailand, 2 of 6000 samples were reactive for CHIKV, 4 of 6000 for DENV, and 1 of 6005 for ZIKV, and all confirmed. The prevalence of CHIKV is 0.033% (0.004-0.120), DENV 0.067% (0.018-0.171), and ZIKV 0.017% (0.000-0.093). The overall specificity for the cobas CHIKV/DENV and cobas Zika tests was 100% (99.959-100). For the simultaneous assay testing, 960 test results were available in 7 hours and 53 minutes. CONCLUSION Detection of CHIKV, DENV, and ZIKV RNA in donor samples in Vietnam and Thailand indicate the presence of the virus in asymptomatic blood donors. The cobas 6800/8800 systems (Roche Molecular Systems, Pleasanton, CA) enable screening blood donations in endemic areas for these viruses together or separately.
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- Jean Stanley
- Medical and Scientific AffairsRoche Molecular DiagnosticsPleasantonCaliforniaUSA
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- Blood ScreeningNational Institute of Hematology and Blood TransfusionHanoiVietnam
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- Faculty of MedicineRamathibodi Hospital, Mahidol UniversityBangkokThailand
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- Scientific AffairsAmerican Red CrossGaithersburgMarylandUSA
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- Medical and Scientific AffairsRoche Molecular DiagnosticsPleasantonCaliforniaUSA
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Lu ZY, Cheng MH, Yu CY, Lin YS, Yeh TM, Chen CL, Chen CC, Wan SW, Chang CP. Dengue Nonstructural Protein 1 Maintains Autophagy through Retarding Caspase-Mediated Cleavage of Beclin-1. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:E9702. [PMID: 33352639 PMCID: PMC7766445 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21249702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2020] [Revised: 12/11/2020] [Accepted: 12/16/2020] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Dengue virus (DENV) infection is a significant public health threat in tropical and subtropical regions; however, there is no specific antiviral drug. Accumulated studies have revealed that DENV infection induces several cellular responses, including autophagy and apoptosis. The crosstalk between autophagy and apoptosis is associated with the interactions among components of these two pathways, such as apoptotic caspase-mediated cleavage of autophagy-related proteins. Here, we show that DENV-induced autophagy inhibits early cell apoptosis and hence enhances DENV replication. Later, the apoptotic activities are elevated to suppress autophagy through cleavage of Beclin-1, an essential autophagy-related protein. Inhibition of cleavage of Beclin-1 by a pan-caspase inhibitor, Z-VAD, increases both autophagy and viral replication. Regarding the mechanism, we further found that DENV nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) is able to interact with Beclin-1 during DENV infection. The interaction between Beclin-1 and NS1 attenuates Beclin-1 cleavage and facilitates autophagy to prevent cell apoptosis. Our study suggests a novel mechanism whereby NS1 preserves Beclin-1 for maintaining autophagy to antagonize early cell apoptosis; however, elevated caspases trigger apoptosis by degrading Beclin-1 in the late stage of infection. These findings suggest implications for anti-DENV drug design.
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- Zi-Yi Lu
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan; (Z.-Y.L.); (Y.-S.L.)
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- School of Medicine for International Students, College of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung 824, Taiwan;
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- National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli 350, Taiwan;
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan; (Z.-Y.L.); (Y.-S.L.)
- Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan;
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- Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan;
- Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
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- School of Respiratory Therapy, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 110, Taiwan;
- Pulmonary Research Center, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 116, Taiwan
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- Department of Pathology, Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Chiayi 600, Taiwan;
- Department of Cosmetic Science, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan 717, Taiwan
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- School of Medicine for International Students, College of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung 824, Taiwan;
- Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan;
- Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung 824, Taiwan
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan; (Z.-Y.L.); (Y.-S.L.)
- Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan;
- The Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
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Périssé ARS, Souza-Santos R, Duarte R, Santos F, de Andrade CR, Rodrigues NCP, Schramm JMDA, da Silva ED, Jacobson LDSV, Lemos MCF, Sobral A. Zika, dengue and chikungunya population prevalence in Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil, and the importance of seroprevalence studies to estimate the real number of infected individuals. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0243239. [PMID: 33332373 PMCID: PMC7746276 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0243239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2020] [Accepted: 11/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In the last 40 years, Latin America countries, including Brazil, have suffered from the emergence and reemergence of arboviruses, first Dengue (DENV) and recently Zika (ZIKV) and Chikungunya (CHIKV). All three arboviruses are currently endemic in Brazil and have caused major outbreaks in recent years. Rio de Janeiro city, host of the last Summer Olympic Games and the Football World Cup, has been specially affected by them. A surveillance system based on symptomatic reports is in place in Rio, but the true number of affected individuals is unknown due to the great number of Zika, Dengue and Chikungunya asymptomatic cases. Seroprevalence studies are more suitable to evaluate the real number of cases in a given population. We performed a populational seroprevalence survey in Rio, with recruitment of a sample of volunteers of all ages and gender from July to October 2018, within randomly selected census tracts and household. A total of 2,120 volunteers were interviewed and tested with rapid immunochromatographic test for ZIKV, DENV and CHIKV. Individuals with positive results for IgG and/or IgM from only one virus were classified accordingly, while those with test results positive for both ZIKV and DENV were classified as flaviviruses. We corrected for sample design and non-response in data analysis, and calculated point estimate prevalence and 95% confidence intervals for each virus. Arbovirus prevalence in the Rio's population (n = 6,688,927) was estimated at 48.6% [95% CI 44.8–52.4] (n = 3,254,121) for flaviviruses and at 18.0% [95% CI 14.8–21.2] (n = 1,204,765) for CHIKV. Approximately 17.0% [95% CI 14.1–20.1] (n = 1,145,674) of Rio´s population had no contact with any of the three arboviruses. The reported cases of Zika, Dengue and Chikungunya by the current surveillance system in place is insufficient to estimate their real numbers, and our data indicate that Zika seroprevalence could be at least five times and Chikungunya 45 times bigger. The high number of individuals having never been infected by any of the three arboviruses, may indicate a proper scenario for future outbreaks.
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- André Reynaldo Santos Périssé
- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Departamento de Endemias Samuel Pessoa, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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- Departamento de Endemias Samuel Pessoa, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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- Departamento de Epidemiologia e Métodos Quantitativos, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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- Centro de Saúde Escola Germano Sinval Faria, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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- Departamento de Epidemiologia e Métodos Quantitativos, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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- Departamento de Estatística, Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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- Departamento de Endemias Samuel Pessoa, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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Arayasongsak U, Naka I, Ohashi J, Patarapotikul J, Nuchnoi P, Kalambaheti T, Sa-Ngasang A, Chanama S, Chaorattanakawee S. Genetic association study of interferon lambda 3, CD27, and human leukocyte antigen-DPB1 with dengue severity in Thailand. BMC Infect Dis 2020; 20:948. [PMID: 33308178 PMCID: PMC7731073 DOI: 10.1186/s12879-020-05636-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2020] [Accepted: 11/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Dengue patients develop different disease severity ranging from mild (dengue fever [DF]) to severe forms (dengue hemorrhagic fever [DHF] and the fatal dengue shock syndrome [DSS]). Host genetics are considered to be one factor responsible for the severity of dengue outcomes. To identify genes associated with dengue severity that have not been studied yet, we performed genetic association analyses of interferon lambda 3 (IFNL3), CD27, and human leukocyte antigen-DPB1 (HLA-DPB1) genes in Thai dengue patients. METHODS A case-control association study was performed in 877 children (age ≤ 15 years) with dengue infection (DF, n = 386; DHF, n = 416; DSS, n = 75). A candidate single nucleotide polymorphism of each of IFNL3, CD27, and HLA-DPB1 was selected to be analyzed. Genotyping was performed by TaqMan real-time PCR assay, and the association with dengue severity was examined. RESULTS The rs9277534 variant of HLA-DPB1 was weakly associated with DHF. The genotype GG and G allele conferred protection against DHF (p = 0.04, odds ratio 0.74 for GG genotype, p = 0.03, odds ratio 0.79 for G allele). The association became borderline significant after adjusting for confounders (p = 0.05, odds ratio 0.82). No association was detected for IFNL3 or CD27. CONCLUSIONS The present study demonstrated the weak association of the rs9277534 variant of HLA-DPB1 with protection against DHF. This variant is in the 3' untranslated region and affects HLA-DPB1 surface protein expression. Our finding suggests that HLA-DPB1 may be involved in DHF pathogenesis.
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- Unchana Arayasongsak
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Ratchawithi Road, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand
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- Laboratory of Human Genome Diversity, Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
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- Laboratory of Human Genome Diversity, Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Ratchawithi Road, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand
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- Department of Clinical Microscopy, Faculty of Medical Technology, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 10700, Thailand
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Ratchawithi Road, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand
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- National Institute of Health, Department of Medical Sciences, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand
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- National Institute of Health, Department of Medical Sciences, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand
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- Department of Parasitology and Entomology, Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol University, Ratchawithi Road, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand.
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Akbar NA, Assiri AM, Shabouni OI, Alwafi OM, Al-Raddadi R, H. Alzahrani M, Azhar EI, Amir A, Aljiffri AM, Althaqafi AO. The economic burden of dengue fever in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2020; 14:e0008847. [PMID: 33253181 PMCID: PMC7728199 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2020] [Revised: 12/10/2020] [Accepted: 10/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Rapid urbanization, global trade, and the exceptionally great numbers of worldwide visitors during Hajj and Umrah have all placed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at a significant risk of introducing several vector-borne tropical diseases, such as dengue fever virus (DENV) infection. In this study we estimated DENV infection cost of illness (COI) in Saudi Arabia in the period 2013–2017, by processing national data including all declared cases recorded in referral centers in the western region, being the endemic region of the country. Using a statistically validated predictive model that was built on a representative sample of 717 laboratory-confirmed cases of DENV infection, direct costs, due to care-related expenditures, were estimated by applying the predictive equation to national data. However, indirect costs, which are due to productivity loss, were estimated using the human capital model based on gross domestic product adjusted for invalidity duration. Further, under-reporting was adjusted by using an expansion factor EF = 3. We observed highest estimated costs in 2016 with over US$168.5 Million total costs, including direct (US$29.0 Million) and indirect (US$139.5 Million) costs, for a total 4415 confirmed cases. The total DENV COI for the five years was estimated as US$551.0 Million for a total 15,369 patients (59.7%) out of 25,745 declared cases, resulting in an average cost of US$11 947.6 by patient. Depending on the year, productivity years loss costs accounted for 63.3% to 83.8% of the estimated total costs. Dengue has a substantial local economic burden that costs US$110.2 Million per year, stressing the urgent need for an effective national prevention strategy to perform considerable cost-savings besides reducing morbidity. The global incidence of DENV infection has evidenced a dramatic increase in the recent two decades with a great number of cases that are misclassified or underreported. These epidemiological characteristics generate high economic costs, especially in endemic regions and countries such as Saudi Arabia. This two-phase study aimed at providing economic data that helps political efficiency and resource prioritization for dengue prevention programs, by assessing the economic burden of disease over the last five years 2013–2017. A double-method used to estimate direct costs due to care expenses and indirect costs due to productivity loss, by using a predictive and an economic model, respectively. Assuming an expansion factor of 3 to correct under-reporting, the average estimated costs of dengue illness per year in the current study was US$117.87 million. Comparison of these findings with international reports emphasized the substantial disease burden of dengue fever in Saudi Arabia. Despite some limitations, this study provided the first economic data of dengue fever infection burden in Saudi Arabia.
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- Naeema A. Akbar
- Preventive medicine, Public Health MOH, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Preventive medicine department, Public Health MOH, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
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- King Abdulaziz University, Faculty of Medicine, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center & Medical Laboratory Technology Department, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Chief Medical Officer, International Medical center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Infection Control Consultant, King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of medicine, King Abdulaziz Medical city- Jeddah, King Saud bin Abdulaziz university for Health Sciences, King Abdullah Medical center, Saudi Arabia
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Balingit JC, Carvajal TM, Saito-Obata M, Gamboa M, Nicolasora AD, Sy AK, Oshitani H, Watanabe K. Surveillance of dengue virus in individual Aedes aegypti mosquitoes collected concurrently with suspected human cases in Tarlac City, Philippines. Parasit Vectors 2020; 13:594. [PMID: 33239063 PMCID: PMC7687837 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-020-04470-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2020] [Accepted: 11/05/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Vector control measures are critical for the prevention and reduction of dengue virus (DENV) transmission. Effective vector control is reliant not only on knowledge of mosquito abundance, but also on the timely and accurate detection of mosquito-borne infection. Mosquito-based virus surveillance programs typically rely on pool-based mosquito testing, although whether individual-based mosquito testing is a feasible alternative to this has not been widely studied. Applying an individual-based mosquito testing approach, we conducted a 1-month surveillance study of DENV in adult Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in homes of suspected dengue patients during the 2015 peak dengue season in Tarlac City, Philippines to more accurately assess the mosquito infection rate and identify the DENV serotypes and genotypes concurrently co-circulating in mosquitoes and patients there. METHODS We performed a one-step multiplex real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay for the simultaneous detection and serotyping of DENV in patients and individual female Ae. aegypti mosquitoes. Additionally, we performed sequencing and phylogenetic analyses to further characterize the detected DENV serotypes in mosquitoes and patients at the genotype level. RESULTS We collected a total of 583 adult Ae. aegypti mosquitoes, of which we individually tested 359 female mosquitoes for the presence of DENV. Ten (2.8%) of the 359 female mosquitoes were positive for the presence of DENV. We detected DENV-1, DENV-2, and DENV-4 in the field-collected mosquitoes, which was consistent with the serotypes concurrently found in infected patients. Sequencing and phylogenetic analyses of the detected DENV serotypes based on the partial sequence of the evelope (E) gene revealed three genotypes concurrently present in the sampled mosquitoes and patients during the study period, namely DENV-1 genotype IV, DENV-2 Cosmopolitan genotype, and DENV-4 genotype II. CONCLUSIONS We demonstrated the utility of a one-step multiplex real-time RT-PCR assay for the individual-based DENV surveillance of mosquitoes. Our findings reinforce the importance of detecting and monitoring virus activity in local mosquito populations, which are critical for dengue prevention and control.
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- Jean Claude Balingit
- Center for Marine Environmental Studies (CMES), Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime Japan
- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime Japan
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- Center for Marine Environmental Studies (CMES), Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime Japan
- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime Japan
- Biological Control Research Unit, Center for Natural Science and Environmental Research, De La Salle University, Taft Avenue, Manila, Philippines
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- Department of Virology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi Japan
- Tohoku-RITM Collaborative Research Center on Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Muntinlupa, Metro Manila Philippines
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- Center for Marine Environmental Studies (CMES), Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime Japan
- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime Japan
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- Molecular Biology Laboratory, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Muntinlupa, Metro Manila Philippines
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- Virology Department, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Muntinlupa, Metro Manila Philippines
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- Department of Virology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi Japan
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- Center for Marine Environmental Studies (CMES), Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime Japan
- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime Japan
- Biological Control Research Unit, Center for Natural Science and Environmental Research, De La Salle University, Taft Avenue, Manila, Philippines
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Barrio-Nuevo KM, Cunha MS, Luchs A, Fernandes A, Rocco IM, Mucci LF, de Souza RP, Medeiros-Sousa AR, Ceretti-Junior W, Marrelli MT. Detection of Zika and dengue viruses in wild-caught mosquitoes collected during field surveillance in an environmental protection area in São Paulo, Brazil. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0227239. [PMID: 33064724 PMCID: PMC7567345 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2019] [Accepted: 09/29/2020] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Species of the genus Flavivirus are widespread in Brazil and are a major public health concern. The country's largest city, São Paulo, is in a highly urbanized area with a few forest fragments which are commonly used for recreation. These can be considered to present a potential risk of flavivirus transmission to humans as they are home simultaneously to vertebrate hosts and mosquitoes that are potential flavivirus vectors. The aim of this study was to conduct flavivirus surveillance in field-collected mosquitoes in the Capivari-Monos Environmental Protection Area (EPA) and identify the flavivirus species by sequence analysis in flavivirus IFA-positive pools. Monthly mosquito collections were carried out from March 2016 to April 2017 with CO2-baited CDC light traps. Specimens were identified morphologically and grouped in pools of up to 10 individuals according to their taxonomic category. A total of 260 pools of non-engorged females were inoculated into C6/36 cell culture, and the cell suspensions were analyzed by indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) after the incubation period. IFA-positive pools were tested by qRT-PCR with genus-specific primers targeting the flavivirus NS5 gene to confirm IFA-positive results and sequenced to identify the species. Anopheles cruzii (19.5%) and Wyeomyia confusa (15.3%) were the most frequent vector species collected. IFA was positive for flaviviruses in 2.3% (6/260) of the sample pools. This was confirmed by qRT-PCR in five pools (83.3%). All five flavivirus-positive pools were successfully sequenced and the species identified. DENV serotype 2 (DENV-2) was detected in Culex spp. and Culex vaxus pools, while ZIKV was identified in An. cruzii, Limatus durhamii and Wy. confusa pools. To the best of our knowledge, detection of flavivirus species of medical importance has never previously been reported in these species of wild-caught mosquitoes. The finding of DENV-2 and ZIKV circulating in wild mosquitoes suggests the existence of an enzootic cycle in the area. In-depth studies of DENV-2 and ZIKV, including investigation of mosquito infection, vector competence and infection in sylvatic hosts, are needed to shed light on the transmission dynamics of these important viruses and the potential risk of future outbreaks of DENV-2 and ZIKV infections in the region.
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- Vector-borne Disease Laboratory, Virology Center, Adolfo Lutz Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Enteric Disease Laboratory, Virology Center, Adolfo Lutz Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Epidemiology Department, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Vector-borne Disease Laboratory, Virology Center, Adolfo Lutz Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Superintendency for the Control of Endemic Diseases, State Health Department, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Epidemiology Department, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Epidemiology Department, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Rafi A, Mousumi AN, Ahmed R, Chowdhury RH, Wadood A, Hossain G. Dengue epidemic in a non-endemic zone of Bangladesh: Clinical and laboratory profiles of patients. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2020; 14:e0008567. [PMID: 33048921 PMCID: PMC7553334 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2020] [Accepted: 07/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUNDS Approximately, half of the population in the world including tropical and sub-tropical climates region is at risk of dengue. Being an endemic country, Bangladesh has experienced the largest dengue epidemic in 2019. The present study aimed at evaluating the clinical and laboratory profile of dengue patients in northern Bangladesh during the epidemic. METHODS This cross-sectional study included 319 serologically confirmed dengue patients admitted in Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital in Bogra district. It is one of the main tertiary care hospitals in northern Bangladesh. Data were collected from July to September 2019. Patients' clinical and laboratory data were extracted from clinical records. Patients were classified into two classes according to the WHO 2009 dengue classification such as (i) non-severe dengue and (ii) severe dengue. Chi-square test and independent t-test were used in this study. RESULTS Of the 319 patients, 94.1% had non-severe dengue and the remaining 5.9% had severe dengue (severe plasma leakage 68.4%, severe organ involvement 68.4%, and severe clinical bleeding 10.5%). Most of the patients were suffering from primary dengue infection. The most common clinical presentation was fever followed by headache and myalgia. Vomiting and abdominal pain were the most prevalent warning signs. The common hematological findings on admission were leukopenia (63.3%), thrombocytopenia (30.4%) and increased hematocrit (26.6%). Raised serum ALT or AST was observed in 14.1% cases whereas raised serum creatinine was observed in 6.6% cases. Signs of plasma leakage (pleural effusion, respiratory distress, and ascites, rise of hematocrit >20% during hospital stay) and hepatic or renal involvement (serum ALT >42UI/L or serum creatinine >1.2 mg/dL) on admission were mostly associated with severe dengue. CONCLUSION The study provides clinical evidence on presentation as well as hematological and biochemical profile of dengue patients in northern Bangladesh that should be implicated in effective patient management.
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- Abdur Rafi
- Rajshahi Medical College, Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh
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- Sir Salimullah Medical College, Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Medical Centre, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh
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- Health Research Group, Department of Statistics, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh
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Liu LT, Chen CH, Tsai CY, Lin PC, Hsu MC, Huang BY, Wang YH, Tsai JJ. Evaluation of rapid diagnostic tests to detect dengue virus infections in Taiwan. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0239710. [PMID: 32991592 PMCID: PMC7524001 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Accepted: 09/12/2020] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Early diagnosis is important for the clinical management of diseases caused by dengue virus (DENV) infections. We investigated the performance of three commercially available DENV nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) using 173 acute-phase sera collected from dengue fever-suspected patients during the 2012-2013 DENV outbreak in Taiwan. The results of the NS1 RDTs were compared with those of qRT-PCR to calculate the sensitivity and specificity of the NS1 RDTs. The anti-DENV IgM and IgG RDT results were included to increase the probability of detecting acute DENV infection. The anti-DENV IgM/IgG RDT results were also compared with those of IgM/IgG captured ELISA. The sera from DENV qRT-PCR-positive patients were subjected to NS1 RDTs, as well as IgM/IgG captured ELISA. These results suggested that there was no significant difference in the sensitivities of the three commercially available DNEV NS1 RDTs; the SD NS1 RDT results showed the highest agreement with the qRT-PCR reference results, followed in order by the Bio-Rad and CTK NS1 RDT results when the specificity was considered. Inclusion of the IgM or IgG RDT results increased the likelihood of diagnosing either a primary or secondary DENV infection. NS1 RDTs were more sensitive for the detection of primary infections than secondary infections, related to DENV viremia levels determined by qRT-PCR. These results suggested that anti-DENV antibodies reduced the sensitivity of NS1 rapid tests. We also analyzed the sensitivity for the detection of different DENV serotypes, and the results suggested that the NS1 RDTs used in this study were valuable for rapid screening of acute DENV infection with DENV-1, DENV-2 and DENV-3. Our results suggest that the NS1 RDT is a good alternative to qRT-PCR analysis for timely dengue disease management and prevention in dengue-endemic regions where medical resources are lacking or during large dengue outbreaks. However, the relatively low sensitivity for DENV-4 might miss the detection of DENV-4-infected cases.
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- Li-Teh Liu
- Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medical Technology, Chung-Hwa University of Medical Technology, Tainan City, Taiwan
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- National Mosquito-Borne Diseases Control Research Center, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan
- National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan
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- Tropical Medicine Center, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Tropical Medicine Center, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Tropical Medicine Center, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Tropical Medicine Center, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Tropical Medicine Center, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Tropical Medicine Center, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Cheng L, Liu WL, Li HH, Su MP, Wu SC, Chen HW, Pan CY, Tsai JJ, Chen CH. Releasing Intracellular NS1 from Mosquito Cells for the Detection of Dengue Virus-Infected Mosquitoes. Viruses 2020; 12:v12101105. [PMID: 33003584 PMCID: PMC7599882 DOI: 10.3390/v12101105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2020] [Revised: 09/23/2020] [Accepted: 09/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Dengue virus (DENV), the pathogen that causes dengue fever, is mainly transmitted by Aedes aegypti. Surveillance of infected mosquitoes is a major component of integrated mosquito control methods for reducing the risk of vector-born disease outbreaks. However, a specialized rapid test for DENV detection in mosquitoes is not currently available. Utilizing immunoblotting, we found that the secretion of NS1 from both a DENV-infected mosquito cell line and mosquito bodies was below the detection threshold. However, when Triton X-100 was used to lyse infected mosquitoes, intracellular NS1 was released, and could then be effectively detected by the NS1 rapid test. The distribution of DENV NS1 in intrathoracically infected mosquitoes was different from that of orally infected mosquitoes. Next, we performed sensitivity tests by bisecting mosquitoes longitudinally; one half of each mosquito was subjected to the NS1 rapid test while the other half was used for qPCR confirmation. This modified test had a sensitivity of nearly 90% from five days post-infection onwards, while DENV had escaped from the midgut barrier. This adapted test offers a valuable, easy-to-use tool for mosquito surveillance, which is a crucial component of DENV disease control.
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- Lie Cheng
- National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli 350401, Taiwan; (L.C.); (H.-H.L.); (H.-W.C.)
- Tropical Medicine Center, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung 807377, Taiwan
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- National Mosquito-Borne Diseases Control Research Center, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli 350401, Taiwan; (W.-L.L.); (S.-C.W.)
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- National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli 350401, Taiwan; (L.C.); (H.-H.L.); (H.-W.C.)
- Institution of Biotechnology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 300044, Taiwan
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- Department of Biological Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan;
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- National Mosquito-Borne Diseases Control Research Center, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli 350401, Taiwan; (W.-L.L.); (S.-C.W.)
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- National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli 350401, Taiwan; (L.C.); (H.-H.L.); (H.-W.C.)
- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, China Medical University, Taichung 110001, Taiwan
- Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807378, Taiwan
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- Department of Health, Kaohsiung City Government, Kaohsiung 800852, Taiwan;
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- Tropical Medicine Center, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung 807377, Taiwan
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung 807377, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807378, Taiwan
- Correspondence: (J.-J.T.); (C.-H.C.)
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- National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli 350401, Taiwan; (L.C.); (H.-H.L.); (H.-W.C.)
- National Mosquito-Borne Diseases Control Research Center, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli 350401, Taiwan; (W.-L.L.); (S.-C.W.)
- Correspondence: (J.-J.T.); (C.-H.C.)
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Rutkowski N, Dong Y, Dimopoulos G. Field-deployable molecular diagnostic platform for arbovirus detection in Aedes aegypti. Parasit Vectors 2020; 13:489. [PMID: 32972453 PMCID: PMC7513541 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-020-04357-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2020] [Accepted: 09/11/2020] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Surveillance of mosquito infection status is critical for planning and deployment of proper mosquito control initiatives. Point-of-care (POC) detection assays are necessary for monitoring the infection prevalence and geographical range of viruses in mosquito vector populations. We therefore assessed the novel real-time PCR (qPCR) bCUBE (Hyris, London, UK) molecular diagnostic system as a tool for virus detection. METHODS Aedes aegypti Rps17 was used to validate and determine correlation coefficient for the novel bCUBE qPCR system to a laboratory standard StepOnePlus real-time PCR system (Applied Biosystems, Waltham, MA, USA). Experimentally infected Ae. aegypti were quantified for Zika (ZIKV) and dengue virus serotype 2 (DENV2) viral genomic RNA. Infection prevalence was compared to plaque assay. RESULTS We developed and validated a novel qPCR system for the detection of ZIKV and DENV2 using the real-time qPCR system bCUBE. With bCUBE-based qRT-PCR, viral genomic RNA could be detected in individually infected Ae. aegypti mosquitoes and in pools of 5, 10 or 15 mosquitoes. CONCLUSIONS The portable qPCR bCUBE diagnostic system is capable of detecting Zika and dengue virus in mosquitoes and therefore has potential as a practical field-deployable diagnostic test for vector-borne disease surveillance programmes.
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- Natalie Rutkowski
- W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA
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- W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA
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- W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA
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Estupiñán Cárdenas MI, Herrera VM, Miranda Montoya MC, Lozano Parra A, Zaraza Moncayo ZM, Flórez García JP, Rodríguez Barraquer I, Villar Centeno LÁ. Heterogeneity of dengue transmission in an endemic area of Colombia. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2020; 14:e0008122. [PMID: 32925978 PMCID: PMC7571714 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2019] [Revised: 10/19/2020] [Accepted: 02/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Population based serological surveys are the gold-standard to quantify dengue (DENV) transmission. The purpose of this study was to estimate the age-specific seroprevalence and the force of infection of DENV in an endemic area of Colombia. Between July and October 2014, we conducted a household based cross-sectional survey among 1.037 individuals aged 2 to 40 years living in 40 randomly selected locations in urban Piedecuesta, Santander, Colombia. In addition, we also enrolled 246 indviduals living in rural "veredas". Participants were asked to answer a questionnaire that included demographic, socioeconomic and environmental questions and to provide a 5 ml blood sample. Sera were tested using the IgG indirect ELISA (Panbio) kit to determine past DENV infection. The overall DENV seroprevalence was 70% (95% CI = 67%-71%), but was significantly higher in urban (81%, 95% CI = 78%-83%) as compared to rural (21%, 95% CI = 17%-27%) locations. Age was a major predictor of seropositivity, consistent with endemic circulation of the virus. Using catalytic models we estimated that on average, 12% (95%CI = 11%-13%) of susceptible individuals living in the city are infected by DENV each year. Beyond age, the only predictor of seropositivity in urban locations was prior history of dengue diagnosed by a physician (aPR 1.15, 95% CI = 0.98-1.35). Among participants living in rural settings, those that reported traveling outside of their vereda were more likely to be seropositive (aPR 3.60, 95%CI = 1.54-8.42) as well as those who were born outside of Santander department (aPR = 2.77, 95%CI = 1.20-6.37). These results are consistent with long term endemic circulation of DENV in Piedecuesta, with large heterogeneities between urban and rural areas located just a few kilometers apart. Design of DENV control interventions, including vaccination, will need to consider this fine scale spatial heterogeneity.
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- Grupo de Epidemiología Clínica, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia
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- Grupo de Epidemiología Clínica, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia
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- Division of HIV, ID and Global Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Grupo de Epidemiología Clínica, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia
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Wang J, Chen Q, Jiang Z, Li X, Kuang H, Chen T, Liu F, Zhou W, Huang Y, Luo Y, Rao J, Ju W, Wang L, Peng X, Zhang Z, Chen H. Epidemiological and clinical analysis of the outbreak of dengue fever in Zhangshu City, Jiangxi Province, in 2019. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2020; 40:103-110. [PMID: 32797320 PMCID: PMC7426594 DOI: 10.1007/s10096-020-03962-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2020] [Accepted: 06/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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This study analyzed the epidemiological and clinical features of dengue fever in Zhangshu, Jiangxi Province, in 2019 and provided evidence for the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control of dengue fever. A total of 718 dengue fever patients in Zhangshu in 2019 were involved. ELISA and qRT-PCR were used for pathogenic detection of dengue virus. Multiple adjuvant therapies were applied, and the condition of patients after treatment was examined. Patients were between the ages of 0.75 and 92 years old, and all of them had a fever. A total of 519 cases had fatigue, and 413 cases had generalized myalgia and bone ache; 356 cases had dry mouth, 289 cases had bitter taste, and 167 cases felt dry and bitter taste; 279 cases had rash, and 93 cases had pruritus; 587 cases had decreased leukocyte, among which, 7 cases had leukocyte lower than 1 × 10 [9]/L; 380 cases had a low platelet count, and the platelet count of 29 cases was lower than 50 × 10 [9]/L; 488 cases had increased aspartic transaminase, and 460 cases had increased alanine aminotransferase; 5 cases had a severe disease. It proved that the majority of dengue fever sufferers were adults, with the main clinical features being fever and rash and the chief injured organs being the blood system, liver, heart, and gastrointestinal tract. Besides, over 40% of patients had dry and bitter taste, and 12 cases had alopecia after discharge. It indicates that the incidence of dengue fever in Zhangshu is closely related to the sudden population flow and imported cases.
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- Jingen Wang
- Zhangshu People’s Hospital, Yichun, 331200 China
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- Zhangshu People’s Hospital, Yichun, 331200 China
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- Zhangshu People’s Hospital, Yichun, 331200 China
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- Zhangshu People’s Hospital, Yichun, 331200 China
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- Zhangshu People’s Hospital, Yichun, 331200 China
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- Zhangshu People’s Hospital, Yichun, 331200 China
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- The Ninth Hospital of Nanchang, No. 167 Hongdu Central Road, Nanchang, 330002 China
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- Jiangxi Qingjiang Hospital, Yichun, 331200 China
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- The Ninth Hospital of Nanchang, No. 167 Hongdu Central Road, Nanchang, 330002 China
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- The Ninth Hospital of Nanchang, No. 167 Hongdu Central Road, Nanchang, 330002 China
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- The Ninth Hospital of Nanchang, No. 167 Hongdu Central Road, Nanchang, 330002 China
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- The Ninth Hospital of Nanchang, No. 167 Hongdu Central Road, Nanchang, 330002 China
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- The Ninth Hospital of Nanchang, No. 167 Hongdu Central Road, Nanchang, 330002 China
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- The Ninth Hospital of Nanchang, No. 167 Hongdu Central Road, Nanchang, 330002 China
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Calvez E, Somlor S, Viengphouthong S, Balière C, Bounmany P, Keosenhom S, Caro V, Grandadam M. Rapid genotyping protocol to improve dengue virus serotype 2 survey in Lao PDR. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0237384. [PMID: 32764809 PMCID: PMC7413503 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0237384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2020] [Accepted: 07/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Dengue fever is one of the major public health problems in Lao PDR. Over the last decade, dengue virus (DENV) epidemics were characterized by a novel predominant serotype accompanied by at least two other serotypes. Since 2008, DENV-2 circulated at a low level in Lao PDR but its epidemiologic profile changed at the end of 2018. Indeed, the number of confirmed DENV-2 cases suddenly increased in October 2018 and DENV-2 became predominant at the country level in early 2019. We developed a Genotype Screening Protocol (GSP) to determine the origin(s) of the Lao DENV-2 and study their genetic polymorphism. With a good correlation with full envelope gene sequencing data, this molecular epidemiology tool evidence the co-circulation of two highly polymorphic DENV-2 genotypes, i.e. Asian I and Cosmopolitan genotypes, over the last five years, suggesting multiple introductions of DENV-2 in the country. GSP approach provides relevant first line information that may help countries with limited laboratory resources to reinforce their capabilities to DENV-2 and to follow the epidemics progresses and assess situations at the regional level.
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- Elodie Calvez
- Institut Pasteur du Laos, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic
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- Institut Pasteur du Laos, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic
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- Institut Pasteur du Laos, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic
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- Institut Pasteur du Laos, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic
- Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées, Brétigny-sur-Orge, France
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Huang EYY, Wong AYP, Lee IHT, Qu Z, Yip HY, Leung CW, Yin SM, Hui JHL. Infection patterns of dengue, Zika and endosymbiont Wolbachia in the mosquito Aedes albopictus in Hong Kong. Parasit Vectors 2020; 13:361. [PMID: 32690078 PMCID: PMC7372788 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-020-04231-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2020] [Accepted: 07/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The mosquito Aedes albopictus is a vector of dengue and Zika viruses. Insecticide-resistant mosquito populations have evolved in recent decades, suggesting that new control strategies are needed. Hong Kong has a monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate, which favours the spread of mosquitoes. However, baseline information on the composition and dynamics of the occurrence of endosymbiont Wolbachia in local Ae. albopictus is lacking, hindering the development of scientifically-informed control measures. This study identifies the presence and absence of dengue and Zika viruses, and Wolbachia infection in Aedes albopictus in Hong Kong. METHODS Oviposition traps were set at 57 areas in Hong Kong, and both immature and adult mosquitoes were collected on a monthly basis between April 2018 and April 2019 as the study sample. Each individual mosquito in this sample was processed and screened for the presence of the dengue and Zika viruses and the endosymbionts Wolbachia wAlbA and wAlbB with PCR. RESULTS Totals of 967 and 984 mosquitoes were tested respectively for the presence of dengue and Zika viruses, and no trace of either infection was found in these samples. The presence of wAlbA and wAlbB was also tested in 1582 individuals. Over 80% of these individuals were found to be stably infected with Wolbachia throughout the thirteen-month collection period (~ 47% singly-infected; ~ 36.8% doubly infected with both wAlbA and wAlbB). CONCLUSIONS The high degree of Wolbachia wAlbA and wAlbB infection in Ae. albopictus mosquitoes in Hong Kong, coupled with the absence of any signs of infection by dengue and Zika viruses, contrasts significantly with the pattern of mosquito infection in other parts of Asia. Further studies of the infection pattern in local mosquitoes are warranted before mosquito control strategies used in other regions are implemented in Hong Kong.
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- Elaine Y. Y. Huang
- School of Life Sciences, Simon F.S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Simon F.S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Simon F.S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Simon F.S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Simon F.S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Pest Control Advisory Section, Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), Hong Kong, China
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- Pest Control Advisory Section, Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), Hong Kong, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Simon F.S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Abílio AP, Kampango A, Armando EJ, Gudo ES, das Neves LCB, Parreira R, Sidat M, Fafetine JM, de Almeida APG. First confirmed occurrence of the yellow fever virus and dengue virus vector Aedes (Stegomyia) luteocephalus (Newstead, 1907) in Mozambique. Parasit Vectors 2020; 13:350. [PMID: 33019944 PMCID: PMC7537105 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-020-04217-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2020] [Accepted: 07/06/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Mozambique, same as many other tropical countries, is at high risk of arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) diseases and recently two dengue virus (DENV) outbreaks occurred in the northern part of the country. The occurrence of some important vector species, such as Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (Linnaeus) and Ae. (Stg.) albopictus (Skuse), besides several other sylvatic vectors, have been reported in the country, which may indicate that the transmission of some arboviruses of public health importance may involve multiple-vector systems. Therefore, knowing the occurrence and distribution of existing and the new important vectors species, is crucial for devising systematic transmission surveillance and vector control approaches. The aim of this study was to map the occurrence and distribution of mosquito species with potential for transmitting arboviruses of human and veterinary relevance in Niassa Province, Northern Mozambique. METHODS Field entomological surveys were undertaken in April 2016 in Lago District, Niassa Province, northern Mozambique. Breeding sites of mosquitoes were inspected and immature stages were collected and reared into adult. Mosquitoes in the adult stages were morphologically identified using taxonomic keys. Morphological identification of Aedes (Stegomyia) luteocephalus (Newstead) were later confirmed using dissected male genitalia and molecular based on the phylogenetic analyses of the sequenced barcode (cox1 mtDNA) gene. RESULTS A total of 92 mosquito larvae collected developed into adults. Of these, 16 (17.39%) were morphologically identified as Ae. luteocephalus. The remaining specimens belonged to Ae. (Stg.) aegypti (n = 4, 4.35%), Ae. (Aedimorphus) vittatus (n = 24, 26.09%), Anopheles garnhami (n = 1, 1.09%), Culex (Culiciomyia) nebulosus (n = 28, 30.43%), Eretmapodites subsimplicipes (n = 18, 19.57%) and Toxorhynchites brevipalpis (n = 1, 1.09%), taxa already known to the country. Male genitalia and phylogenetic analyses confirmed the identity of Ae. luteocephalus specimens collected in this study. CONCLUSIONS To our knowledge, this is the first detection of Ae. luteocephalus in Mozambican territory, a vector species of yellow fever virus (YFV), Zika virus (ZIKV) and dengue virus (DENV) in Africa. Further studies are encouraged to investigate the role of Ae. luteocephalus in the transmission of arboviral diseases in Mozambique.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ana Paula Abílio
- Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS), Maputo, Província de Maputo Mozambique
- Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), Maputo, Mozambique
| | - Ayubo Kampango
- Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS), Maputo, Província de Maputo Mozambique
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- Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS), Maputo, Província de Maputo Mozambique
| | - Luís C. B. das Neves
- Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), Maputo, Mozambique
- Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, University of Pretoria (UP), Pretoria, South Africa
| | - Ricardo Parreira
- GHTM, Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (IHMT), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
| | - Mohsin Sidat
- Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), Maputo, Mozambique
- GHTM, Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (IHMT), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
| | - José M. Fafetine
- Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), Maputo, Mozambique
- Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, University of Pretoria (UP), Pretoria, South Africa
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