Concomitant outbreaks of yellow fever and hepatitis E virus in Darfur States, Sudan, 2012
Introduction: Yellow fever (YF) is a vector-borne disease transmitted to humans by infected Aedes mosquitoes, while hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a waterborne disease that is transmitted through the fecal-oral route. Both diseases have very close clinical presentation, namely fever, jaundice, malaise,...
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| author | Sarah S Ahmed Mohammed A Soghaier Sozan Mohammed Hayat S Khogali Muntasir M Osman Abdalla M Abdalla |
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| description | Introduction: Yellow fever (YF) is a vector-borne disease transmitted to humans by infected Aedes mosquitoes, while hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a waterborne disease that is transmitted through the fecal-oral route. Both diseases have very close clinical presentation, namely fever, jaundice, malaise, and dark urine; they differ in severity and outcome.
Methodology: In this cross-sectional, laboratory-based study, an attempt was made to measure the correlation of concomitant YF and HEV infection in Darfur States during the previous YF outbreak in 2012.
Results: Results found concomitant outbreaks of YF and HEV at the same time with very weak statistical correlation between the two infections during the outbreak period, with Cramer’s V correlation 0.05 and insignificant p value of 0.86.
Conclusions: This correlation indicates that clinicians and care providers in tropical areas have to deal with clinical case definitions used for disease surveillance very carefully since prevalence of HEV infection is relatively common and this increases the possibility of misclassification and missing YF cases, particularly initial index cases, in a season or outbreak.
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| spelling | doaj-art-dab15e28b65c49b9b66f34e29be966f72025-08-20T02:27:18ZengThe Journal of Infection in Developing CountriesJournal of Infection in Developing Countries1972-26802016-01-01100110.3855/jidc.6342Concomitant outbreaks of yellow fever and hepatitis E virus in Darfur States, Sudan, 2012Sarah S Ahmed0Mohammed A Soghaier1Sozan Mohammed2Hayat S Khogali3Muntasir M Osman4Abdalla M Abdalla5Federal Ministry of Health, Khartoum, SudanFederal Ministry of Health, Khartoum, SudanFederal Ministry of Health, Khartoum, SudanFederal Ministry of Health, Khartoum, SudanFederal Ministry of Health, Khartoum, SudanFederal Ministry of Health, Khartoum, SudanIntroduction: Yellow fever (YF) is a vector-borne disease transmitted to humans by infected Aedes mosquitoes, while hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a waterborne disease that is transmitted through the fecal-oral route. Both diseases have very close clinical presentation, namely fever, jaundice, malaise, and dark urine; they differ in severity and outcome. Methodology: In this cross-sectional, laboratory-based study, an attempt was made to measure the correlation of concomitant YF and HEV infection in Darfur States during the previous YF outbreak in 2012. Results: Results found concomitant outbreaks of YF and HEV at the same time with very weak statistical correlation between the two infections during the outbreak period, with Cramer’s V correlation 0.05 and insignificant p value of 0.86. Conclusions: This correlation indicates that clinicians and care providers in tropical areas have to deal with clinical case definitions used for disease surveillance very carefully since prevalence of HEV infection is relatively common and this increases the possibility of misclassification and missing YF cases, particularly initial index cases, in a season or outbreak. https://jidc.org/index.php/journal/article/view/6342yellow feverhepatitis E virusco-infectionDarfur |
| spellingShingle | Sarah S Ahmed Mohammed A Soghaier Sozan Mohammed Hayat S Khogali Muntasir M Osman Abdalla M Abdalla Concomitant outbreaks of yellow fever and hepatitis E virus in Darfur States, Sudan, 2012 Journal of Infection in Developing Countries yellow fever hepatitis E virus co-infection Darfur |
| title | Concomitant outbreaks of yellow fever and hepatitis E virus in Darfur States, Sudan, 2012 |
| title_full | Concomitant outbreaks of yellow fever and hepatitis E virus in Darfur States, Sudan, 2012 |
| title_fullStr | Concomitant outbreaks of yellow fever and hepatitis E virus in Darfur States, Sudan, 2012 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Concomitant outbreaks of yellow fever and hepatitis E virus in Darfur States, Sudan, 2012 |
| title_short | Concomitant outbreaks of yellow fever and hepatitis E virus in Darfur States, Sudan, 2012 |
| title_sort | concomitant outbreaks of yellow fever and hepatitis e virus in darfur states sudan 2012 |
| topic | yellow fever hepatitis E virus co-infection Darfur |
| url | https://jidc.org/index.php/journal/article/view/6342 |
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