Volume 17, Number 8—August 2011
Letter
No Evidence of Dengue Virus Circulation in Rural Gabon
Xavier Pourrut
, Dieudonné Nkoghé, Jean-Paul Gonzalez, and Eric Leroy
, Dieudonné Nkoghé, Jean-Paul Gonzalez, and Eric LeroyTable
Prevalence of IgG and IgM against dengue virus in humans and nonhuman primates, Gabon*
| Province | No. positive/no. tested (% positive) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humans |
Pet monkeys† |
Wild monkeys‡ |
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| IgG | IgM | IgG | IgM | IgG | IgM | |||
| Estuaire | 5/286 (1.7) | 1/95 (1.1) | 0/13 (0) | 0/13 (0) | 0/1 (0) | 0/1 (0) | ||
| Haut-Ogooué | 1/364 (0.3) | 0/80 (0) | 0/8 (0) | 0/8 (0) | 0/1 (0) | 0/1 (0) | ||
| Moyen-Ogooué | 3/558 (0.5) | 1/113 (0.9) | 0/10 (0) | 0/10 (0) | 0/7 (0) | 0/7 (0) | ||
| Ngounié | 0/146 (0) | 0/60 (0) | 0/51(0) | 0/51 (0) | 0/5 (0) | 0/5 (0) | ||
| Nyanga | 1/774 (0.1) | 0/151 (0) | 0/33 (0) | 0/33 (0) | 0/2 (0) | 0/2 (0) | ||
| Ogooué Ivindo | 5/499 (1) | 0/105 (0) | 0/31(0) | 0/31 (0) | 0/3 (0) | 0/3 (0) | ||
| Ogooué-Lolo | 0/416 (0) | 0/90 (0) | 0/11 (0) | 0/11 (0) | 0/3 (0) | 0/3 (0) | ||
| Ogooué-Maritime | 2/197 (1) | 1/72 (1.4) | 0 | 0 | 0/18 (0) | 0/18 (0) | ||
| Woleu-Ntem |
3/831 (0.4) |
2/163 (1.2) |
0/29 (0) |
0/29 (0) |
0/10 (0) |
0/10 (0) |
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| Total | 20/4,341 (0.5) | 5/930 (0.5) | 0/186 (0) | 0/186 (0) | 0/50 (0) | 0/50 (0) | ||
*Ig, immunoglobulin.
†Cercopithecus cephus, C. nictitans, C. neglectus, C. pogonias, C. solatus, Cercocebus torquatus, Gorilla gorilla, Lophocebus albigena, Mandrillus sphinx, Miopithecus ogoouensis, and Pan troglodytes species.
‡Cercopithecus cephus, C. nictitans, C. neglectus, C. pogonias, Cercocebus torquatus, Mandrillus sphinx, and Perodictitus potto species.
