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Volume 22, Number 5—May 2016
Letter

Seroepidemiologic Screening for Zoonotic Viral Infections, Maputo, Mozambique

Eduardo Samo Gudo1, Birgitta Lesko1Comments to Author , Sirkka Vene, Nina Lagerqvist, Sandra Isabel Candido, Nilsa Razão de Deus, Félix Dinis Pinto, Gabriela Pinto, Vanessa Monteiro, Virginia Lara Evaristo, Nilesh Bhatt, Ivan Manhica, and Kerstin I. Falk
Author affiliations: Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Ministry of Health, Maputo, Mozambique (E. Samo Gudo, S.I. Candido, N.R. de Deus, F. Pinto, G. Pinto, V. Monteiro, V.L. Evaristo, N. Bhatt); Public Health Agency of Sweden, Solna, Sweden (B. Lesko, S. Vene, N. Lagerqvist, K.I. Falk); Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (B. Lesko, K.I. Falk); National Directorate for Public Health, Ministry of Health, Mozambique (I. Manhica)

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Table

Results of screening for viral antibodies and malaria parasites in 78 febrile patients, Maputo, Mozambique, 2012–2013*

Organism No. (%) positive†
Chikungunya virus 15 (19.2)
Dengue virus 10 (12.8)‡
Hantavirus 0
Rift Valley fever virus 1 (1.3)
West Nile virus 3 (3.8)
Malaria parasites 15 (19.2)§

*Viral antibody–positive patients had positive IgG or IgM response for >1 of the zoonotic viruses in acute- or convalescent-phase serum samples. The overall malaria screening results for the study cohort is also presented
†Three of the 23 serology-positive patients were positive for dengue virus and West Nile virus IgG, of whom 2 were also positive for chikungunya virus IgG and 1 for Rift Valley fever virus IgG.
‡Including 2 dengue virus IgM-positive samples.
§Three of 15 malaria-positive patients had a positive serologic finding (2 for dengue virus IgG and 1 for chikungunya IgG).

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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