Chikungunya Outbreak Risks after the 2014 Outbreak, Dominican Republic
Gideon Loevinsohn
1, Cecilia Then Paulino
1, Jessica Spring, Holly R. Hughes, Angela Cadavid Restrepo, Helen Mayfield, Michael de St. Aubin, Janeen Laven, Amanda Panella, William Duke, Marie Caroline Etienne, Gabriela Abdalla, Salome Garnier, Naomi Iihoshi, Beatriz Lopez, Lucia de la Cruz, Bernarda Henríquez, Margaret Baldwin, Farah Peña, Adam J. Kucharski, Marietta Vasquez, Emily Zielinski Gutiérrez, Aaron C. Brault, Ronald Skewes-Ramm, Colleen L. Lau, and Eric J. Nilles
Author affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massechusetts, USA (G. Loevinsohn); Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston (G. Loevinsohn, M. de St. Aubin, M.C. Etienne, G. Abdalla, S. Garnier, N. Iihoshi, M. Baldwin, E.J. Nilles); Ministry of Health and Social Assistance, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (C. Then Paulino, L. de la Cruz, B. Henríquez, F. Peña, R. Skewes-Ramm); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (J. Spring, H.R. Hughes, J. Laven, A. Panella, A.C. Brault); University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (A. Cadavid Restrepo, H. Mayfield, C.L. Lau); Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (M. de St. Aubin, M. Baldwin. E.J. Nilles); Pedro Henríquez Ureña National University, Santo Domingo (W. Duke); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Central America Regional Office, Guatemala City, Guatemala (B. Lopez, E. Zielinski Gutiérrez); London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK (A.J. Kucharski); Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (M. Vasquez); Harvard Medical School, Boston (E.J. Nilles)
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Figure 1. Chikungunya seroprevalence by year of birth in study of chikungunya outbreak risks after the 2014 outbreak, Dominican Republic. Blue band represents the 95% CI for pooled seroprevalence, which combined data from acute febrile illness and serosurvey cohorts. Estimates were obtained using kernel-weighted local polynomial smoothing weighted by the size of each birth cohort. AFI, acute febrile illness.
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