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Volume 20, Number 8—August 2014
Letter

Serologic Surveillance for West Nile Virus in Dogs, Africa

Bernard DavoustComments to Author , Isabelle Leparc-Goffart, Jean-Paul Demoncheaux, Raphaël Tine, Mamadou Diarra, Grégory Trombini, Oleg Mediannikov, and Jean-Lou Marié
Author affiliations: Groupe de Travail en Épidémiologie Animale du Service de Santé des Armées, Toulon, France (B. Davoust, J.-P. Demoncheaux, G. Trombini, J.L. Marié); Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Émergentes (IRD 198), Dakar, Senegal (B. Davoust, O. Mediannikov); Centre National de Référence des Arbovirus–Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées, Marseille, France (I. Leparc-Goffart); Services Vétérinaires de la Gendarmerie Nationale, Dakar (R. Tine, M. Diarra)

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Table

Prevalence of West Nile virus antibodies in dog populations, France and Africa, 2003–2012

Country and area No. dogs, N = 753 No. positive for IgG by ELISA No. results confirmed by Western blot Prevalence, % (95% CI)
France
Corsica 35* 3 0 0 (0–10)
Var 25* 3 3 12.0 (2.5–31.2)
Gard 11* 1 1 9.1 (0.2–41.3)
Imported from
Germany/the Netherlands 9* 0 0 0 (0–33.6)
Hungary
24*
6
3
12.5 (2.7–32.4)
Djibouti
47*
8
6
12.8 (4.8–25.7)
N'Djamena, Chad 50* 13 12 24.0 (13.1–38.2)

5
5
5
100.0 (47.8–100.0)
Senegal
Dakar 11* 0 0 0 (0–28.5)
16† 3 3 18.7 (4.1–45.6)
Siné-Saloum 33 6 1 3.0 (0.1–15.8)
Casamance
81
3
3
3.7 (0.8–10.4)
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire 137 7 3 2.2 (0.5–6.3)
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo 24 4 3 12.5 (2.7–32.4)
Haut-Ogooué, Gabon 245 0 0 0 (0–1.5)

*French military working dogs.
†Senegalese gendarmerie working dogs.

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