Article
A localized outbreak of Chikungunya virus in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Registro en:
TAURO, L. B. et al. A localized outbreak of Chikungunya virus in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, v. 114, p. 1-4, 2019.
0074-0276
10.1590/0074-02760180597
10.1590/0074-02760180597
Autor
Tauro, Laura Beatriz
Cardoso, Cristiane Wanderley
Souza, Raquel L.
Nascimento, Leile C. J.
Santos, Daniela Rodrigues dos
Campos, Gubio Soares
Sardi, Silvia
Reis, Olivete B. dos
Reis, Mitermayer Galvão dos
Kitron, Uriel
Ribeiro, Guilherme de Sousa
Resumen
CNPq (grants 400830/2013-2 and 440891/2016-7 to GSR;
and scholarships to LBT, UK, MGR, and GSR), FAPESB (grants APP0044/2016,
and PET0022/2016 to GSR), CAPES (grant 88887.130746/2016-00 to GSR),
UFBA, FIOCRUZ. A localized Chikungunya virus (CHIKV; East/Central/South African genotype) outbreak (50 cases, 70% laboratory-confirmed; attack rate: 5.3 confirmed cases/100 people) occurred in a Salvador, Brazil neighborhood, between Apr-Jun/2017. Highly clustered cases in space and time, mostly along a single street, highlight an increased risk of CHIKV transmission among pockets of susceptible populations. This finding underscores the need for ongoing local level surveillance for arboviral outbreaks.