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Volume 20, Number 10—October 2014
Online Report

Dengue Expansion in Africa—Not Recognized or Not Happening?

Thomas JaenischComments to Author , Thomas Junghanss, Bridget Wills, Oliver J. Brady, Isabella Eckerle, Andrew Farlow, Simon I. Hay, Philip J. McCall, Jane P. Messina, Victor Ofula, Amadou Sall, Anavaj Sakuntabhai, Raman Velayudhan, G.R. William Wint, Herve Zeller, Harold S. Margolis, Osman Sankoh, and the Dengue in Africa Study Group
Author affiliations: Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany (T. Jaenisch, T. Junghanss); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (B. Wills); University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (O.J. Brady, A. Farlow, S.I. Hay, J.P. Messina); University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany (I. Eckerle); Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK (P.J. McCall); US Army Medical Research Unit–Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya (V. Ofula); Institut Pasteur, Dakar, Senegal (A.A. Sall); Institut Pasteur, Paris, France (A. Sakuntabhai); World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (R. Velayudhan); Environmental Research Group, Oxford (G.R.W. Wint); European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Stockholm, Sweden (H. Zeller); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA (H.S. Margoulis); International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health, Accra, Ghana (O. Sankoh)

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Dengue risk for Africa based on environmental niche modeling (3) and location of International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) member sites; Pasteur International Network Laboratories; and other reference laboratories (Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon; Kenya Medical Research Institute/US Army Medical Research Unit, Nairobi, Kenya; and National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South A

Figure. Dengue risk for Africa based on environmental niche modeling (3) and location of International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) member sites; Pasteur International Network Laboratories; and other reference laboratories (Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon; Kenya Medical Research Institute/US Army Medical Research Unit, Nairobi, Kenya; and National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa).

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1Members of the Dengue in Africa Study Group are listed at the end of this article.

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