ArticleThe Journal of general virology2018
Confirmation of Zika virus infection through hospital-based sentinel surveillance of acute febrile illness in Uganda, 2014-2017.
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- Enhanced mosquito vectorial capacity underlies the Cape Verde Zika epidemic.PLoS biology · 2022Article
- Prevalence of microcephaly and Zika virus infection in a pregnancy cohort in Kenya, 2017-2019.BMC medicine · 2022Article
- Mapping the Risk for West Nile Virus Transmission, Africa.Emerging infectious diseases · 2022Article
- Subgenomic flavivirus RNA (sfRNA) associated with Asian lineage Zika virus identified in three species of Ugandan bats (family Pteropodidae).Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Recent African strains of Zika virus display higher transmissibility and fetal pathogenicity than Asian strains.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Zika Virus Circulates at Low Levels in Western and Coastal Kenya.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Dengue fever and chikungunya virus infections: identification in travelers in Uganda - 2017.Tropical diseases, travel medicine and vaccines · 2019Article
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Abstract
Zika virus (ZIKV), transmitted by Aedes species mosquitoes, was first isolated in Uganda in 1947. From February 2014 to October 2017, the Uganda Virus Research Institute, in collaboration with the US Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention, conducted arbovirus surveillance in acute febrile illness (AFI) patients at St Francis hospital in Nkonkonjeru. Three hundred and eighty-four serum samples were collected and tested for IgM antibodies to yellow fever virus (YFV), West Nile virus (WNV), dengue virus (DENV), chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and ZIKV. Of the 384 samples, 5 were positive for ZIKV IgM. Of these five, three were confirmed by plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT) to be ZIKV infections. Of the remaining two, one was determined to be a non-specific flavivirus infection and one was confirmed to be alphavirus-positive by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). This study provides the first evidence of laboratory-confirmed ZIKV infection in Uganda in five decades, and emphasizes the need to enhance sentinel surveillance.
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