Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume 102, Issue 12 , Pages 1247-1254 , December 2008

An outbreak of yellow fever with concurrent chikungunya virus transmission in South Kordofan, Sudan, 2005

  • L. Hannah Gould

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Present address: Division of Foodborne, Bacterial, and Mycotic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road MS D-63, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA. Tel.: +1 404 639 3373; fax: +1 404 639 3535.
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  • Magdi S. Osman

      Affiliations

    • Sudan Federal Ministry of Health, Khartoum, Sudan
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  • Eileen C. Farnon

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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  • Kevin S. Griffith

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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  • Marvin S. Godsey

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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  • Said Karch

      Affiliations

    • Agence Régionale de Démoustication, Aulnay Sous Bois, France
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  • Basimike Mulenda

      Affiliations

    • World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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  • Amgad El Kholy

      Affiliations

    • NAMRU-3, Cairo, Egypt
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  • Francesco Grandesso

      Affiliations

    • Epicentre, Paris, France
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  • Xavier de Radiguès

      Affiliations

    • Epicentre, Paris, France
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  • Maria-Emanuela Brair

      Affiliations

    • World Health Organization, Khartoum, Sudan
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  • Sylvie Briand

      Affiliations

    • World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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  • El Sadig Mahgoub El Tayeb

      Affiliations

    • Sudan Federal Ministry of Health, Khartoum, Sudan
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  • Edward B. Hayes

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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  • Herve Zeller

      Affiliations

    • Institute Pasteur, Lyon, France
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  • William Perea

      Affiliations

    • World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Received 17 January 2008 ,Revised 7 April 2008 ,Accepted 7 April 2008.

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PII: S0035-9203(08)00160-0

doi: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.04.014

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume 102, Issue 12 , Pages 1247-1254 , December 2008

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