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Detection of dengue virus serotypes 1, 2 and 3 in selected regions of Kenya: 2011–2014

Overview of attention for article published in Virology Journal, November 2016
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Title
Detection of dengue virus serotypes 1, 2 and 3 in selected regions of Kenya: 2011–2014
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Virology Journal, November 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12985-016-0641-0
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Limbaso Konongoi, Victor Ofula, Albert Nyunja, Samuel Owaka, Hellen Koka, Albina Makio, Edith Koskei, Fredrick Eyase, Daniel Langat, Randal J. Schoepp, Cynthia Ann Rossi, Ian Njeru, Rodney Coldren, Rosemary Sang

Abstract

Dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease, is associated with illness of varying severity in countries in the tropics and sub tropics. Dengue cases continue to be detected more frequently and its geographic range continues to expand. We report the largest documented laboratory confirmed circulation of dengue virus in parts of Kenya since 1982. From September 2011 to December 2014, 868 samples from febrile patients were received from hospitals in Nairobi, northern and coastal Kenya. The immunoglobulin M enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (IgM ELISA) was used to test for the presence of IgM antibodies against dengue, yellow fever, West Nile and Zika. Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) utilizing flavivirus family, yellow fever, West Nile, consensus and sero type dengue primers were used to detect acute arbovirus infections and determine the infecting serotypes. Representative samples of PCR positive samples for each of the three dengue serotypes detected were sequenced to confirm circulation of the various dengue serotypes. Forty percent (345/868) of the samples tested positive for dengue by either IgM ELISA (14.6 %) or by RT-PCR (25.1 %). Three dengue serotypes 1-3 (DENV1-3) were detected by serotype specific RT-PCR and sequencing with their numbers varying from year to year and by region. The overall predominant serotype detected from 2011-2014 was DENV1 accounting for 44 % (96/218) of all the serotypes detected, followed by DENV2 accounting for 38.5 % (84/218) and then DENV3 which accounted for 17.4 % (38/218). Yellow fever, West Nile and Zika was not detected in any of the samples tested. From 2011-2014 serotypes 1, 2 and 3 were detected in the Northern and Coastal parts of Kenya. This confirmed the occurrence of cases and active circulation of dengue in parts of Kenya. These results have documented three circulating serotypes and highlight the need for the establishment of active dengue surveillance to continuously detect cases, circulating serotypes, and determine dengue fever disease burden in the country and region.

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Unknown 189 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 46 24%
Researcher 30 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 11%
Student > Bachelor 18 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 4%
Other 22 12%
Unknown 46 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 26 14%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 24 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 24 13%
Immunology and Microbiology 24 13%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 6 3%
Other 30 16%
Unknown 55 29%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 September 2022.
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#3,211,765
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#310
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#3
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