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ReviewTropical medicine and infectious disease2020

High Seroprevalence of Dengue Virus Infection in Sudan: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Adel Hussein Elduma, A Desiree LaBeaud, Jessica A Plante, Kenneth S Plante, Ayman Ahmed

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Review in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Adel Hussein EldumaNational Public Health Laboratory, Federal Ministry of Health, Khartoum 11111, Sudan.ORCID 0000-0002-0787-710X
A Desiree LaBeaudSchool of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Jessica A PlanteWorld Reference Center for Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA.
Kenneth S PlanteWorld Reference Center for Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA.
Ayman AhmedWorld Reference Center for Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9516-9508

Funding

NIH HHS R24A1120942World Health Organization Joint EMRO/TDR small grant, ID No. SGS 18-87)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The goal of this study was to systematically review the published data on dengue virus (DENV) seroprevalence in Sudan and to estimate disease burden through meta-analysis. We searched, reviewed, and extracted online available reports on DENV in Sudan. Among 168 identified records, 19 were selected. Dengue infections were documented in 11/18 states. The overall seroprevalence of DENV in Sudan was estimated to be 27%, while the prevalence of dengue IgM was 22% and IgG was 38%. The prevalence of dengue estimated from community and hospital-based cross-sectional studies were 26% and 30% respectively. Additionally, one cohort study and a single PCR-based study reported a prevalence of 1% and 4%, respectively. Regional analysis revealed that the variation in seroprevalence in East, North, West, and Central Sudan was 23%, 24%, 36% and 43%, respectively. Interestingly, we found that DENV is circulating countrywide with a significant spatiotemporal variation in the disease seroprevalence. Furthermore, publications on dengue prevalence are temporally and geographically fragmented, perhaps due to limited resources. However, this gap in data and knowledge highlights the urgent need for a country-wide surveillance system and continued study of dengue burden in Sudan to accurately estimate the disease prevalence and determine the associated risk factors.

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arbovirusesdengue feverdengue virusemergencemeta-analysisre-emergenceSudansystematic reviews

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PMID32708492
PMCPMC7559303

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