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Volume 25, Number 4—April 2019
Research

Spatial Dynamics of Chikungunya Virus, Venezuela, 2014

Erley Lizarazo1, Maria Vincenti-Gonzalez1, Maria E. Grillet2, Sarah Bethencourt, Oscar Diaz, Noheliz Ojeda, Haydee Ochoa, Maria Auxiliadora Rangel, and Adriana Tami2Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands (E. Lizarazo, M. Vincenti-Gonzalez, A. Tami); Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela (M.E. Grillet); Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela (S. Bethencourt, A. Tami); Fundación Instituto Carabobeño para la Salud, Carabobo, Venezuela (O. Diaz, N. Ojeda, H. Ochoa, M.A. Rangel)

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Table

Average velocities of chikungunya virus spread across Carabobo state, Venezuela, 2014

Civil parish
 No. cases
 Velocity, m/day
Mean (95% CI)
 SD
 Minimum
 Maximum
 Location*
Candelaria 29 39.4 (33.5–45.2) 15.3 17 96 Central
Catedral 11 28.8 (22.4–35.3) 9.5 15 50 Central
Ciudad Alianza 1 146.7 Not applicable 147 147 East-southeast
El Socorro 6 47.2 (13.5–80.9) 32.1 25 98 South-southwest
Guacara† 4 206.2 (−35.1 to 447.6) 151.7 98 430 East-northeast
Guigue‡ 5 256.7 (151.7–361.8) 84.6 163 344 Southeast
Independencia† 6 206.7 (138.8–274.5) 64.7 138 310 South-southwest
Los Guayos 42 115.1 (105.3–124.9) 31.4 52 176 East-southeast
Miguel Peña 228 80.6 (75.3–86.0) 40.6 21 483 South
Naguanagua 41 85.9 (77.3–94.6) 27.3 47 174 North
Rafael Urdaneta 84 87.2 (79.5–94.8) 35.3 23 186 Southeast
San Blas 27 43.6 (39.0–48.3) 11.7 21 62 Central
San Diego 35 73.3 (63.5–83.1) 28.5 41 150 North-northeast
San Jose 68 27.6 (21.3–34.0) 26.2 0 202 North-central
Santa Rosa 70 58.4 (55.9–60.9) 10.4 35 97 Central
Tacarigua‡ 6 197.0 (147.7–246.3) 47.0 149 259 South-southeast
Tocuyito† 70 149.8 (137.2–162.4) 52.8 61 365 Southwest
Yagua‡ 2 111.0 (−3.4 to 225.4) 12.7 102 120 East-northeast
Total 735 82.9 (79.0–86.7) 53.6 0 483 Entire state

*Location refers to relative locations from the center of the capital city, Valencia.
†Suburban settlements.
‡Rural settlements.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

2These authors contributed equally to this article.

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