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SUBMITTER: Willcox AC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6169194 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Willcox Alexandra C AC Collins Matthew H MH Jadi Ramesh R Keeler Corinna C Parr Jonathan B JB Mumba Dieudonné D Kashamuka Melchior M Tshefu Antoinette A de Silva Aravinda M AM Meshnick Steven R SR
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20180705 3
Flaviviruses such as Zika, dengue, and yellow fever cause epidemics throughout the tropics and account for substantial global morbidity and mortality. Although malaria and other vector-borne diseases have long been appreciated in Africa, flavivirus epidemiology is incompletely understood. Despite the existence of an effective vaccine, yellow fever continues to cause outbreaks and deaths, including at least 42 fatalities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2016. Here, we leveraged bi ...[more]