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Integrated Arbovirus Surveillance Improves the Detection Onset of Zika Virus in Panama
- Source :
- Am J Trop Med Hyg
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2020.
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Abstract
- We tested 700 serum samples collected throughout Panama from 2015 to 2016 for detecting antibodies and RNA of arboviruses. In convalescent specimens, microsphere immunoassay detected an antibody prevalence of 59.3% for dengue virus (DENV) and 30.3% for Zika virus (ZIKV), which included samples that were collected before the Panamanian surveillance system reported the first case of Zika in the country. For acute sera, the most common arbovirus was DENV with 18 positive samples (6%), followed by four (1.3%) of ZIKV and one (0.6%) of chikungunya virus (CHIKV). Our results indicate a change in the chronology of when ZIKV was first detected in Panama and stress the importance of integrating various approaches to enable improved surveillance of both endemic and emerging arboviruses.
- Subjects :
- Panama
viruses
030231 tropical medicine
Fluorescent Antibody Technique
Biology
Dengue virus
Antibodies, Viral
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
medicine.disease_cause
Arbovirus
Virus
Zika virus
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Virology
Prevalence
medicine
Humans
Chikungunya
medicine.diagnostic_test
Zika Virus Infection
virus diseases
Zika Virus
Articles
Dengue Virus
biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition
biology.organism_classification
Serum samples
medicine.disease
Infectious Diseases
Population Surveillance
Immunoassay
Parasitology
Chikungunya virus
Arboviruses
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14761645 and 00029637
- Volume :
- 102
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ca5ad6edd3e61a9699844a64b7aa9ad8