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Volume 29, Number 4—April 2023
Dispatch

Chikungunya Outbreak in Country with Multiple Vectorborne Diseases, Djibouti, 2019–2020

Emilie Javelle, Franck de Laval, Guillaume André Durand, Aissata Dia, Cécile Ficko, Aurore Bousquet, Deborah Delaune, Sébastien Briolant, Audrey Mérens, Constance Brossier, Hervé Pommier, Florian Gala, Alain Courtiol, Quentin Savreux, Sébastien Sicard, Jean-Philippe Sanchez, Francis Robin, Fabrice Simon, Xavier de Lamballerie, Gilda Grard, Isabelle Leparc-Goffart, and Vincent Pommier de SantiComments to Author 
Author affiliations: French Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France (E. Javelle, G.A. Durand, S. Briolant, F. Simon, X. de Lamballerie, G. Grard, I. Leparc-Goffart, V. Pommier de Santi); French Armed Forces Biomedical Research Institute, Marseille (E. Javelle, G.A. Durand, S. Briolant, G. Grard, I. Leparc-Goffart); University Hospital Institute-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille (E. Javelle, S. Briolant); French Armed Forces Center for Epidemiology and Public Health, Marseille (F. de Laval, A. Dia, C. Brossier, S. Sicard, V. Pommier de Santi); Bégin Military Teaching Hospital, Saint Mandé, France (C. Ficko, A. Bousquet, A. Mérens, A. Courtiol); Armed Forces Biomedical Research Institute, Brétigny-Sur-Orge, France (D. Delaune); French Military Health Service, Djibouti City, Djibouti (H. Pommier, F. Gala, Q. Savreux, J.-P. Sanchez, F. Robin)

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Table 1

Chikungunya cases confirmed by RT-PCR (n = 57/58) of blood samples, WB or BP, among 114 confirmed cases of arboviral disease, Djibouti*

Results Positive on BP, no. (%) Negative on BP, no. (%) NA for BP, no. (%) Total
Positive on WB 10 (72) 2 (14) 2 (14) 14
Negative on WB 0 39 (85) 7 (15) 46
NA for WB
 43 (80)
 11 (20)
 0
 54
Total 53 (46) 52 (46) 9 (8) 114

*RT-PCR tests were performed from October 2019 on dried blood spots stored on BP at the French National Reference Center for arboviruses in France. From January 2020, RT-PCR tests were also locally performed on WB samples at the French military medical center in Djibouti. BP, blotting paper; NA, not available (samples or result missing); RT-PCR, reverse transcription PCR; WB, whole blood.

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