Rift Valley Fever Reemergence After 7 Years of Quiescence, South Africa, May 2018

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2019 Jan 23

PMID 30666946

Citations 8

Authors

Petrus Jansen van Vuren

Joe Kgaladi

Veerle Msimang

Janusz T Paweska

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Abstract

Phylogenetic analysis of Rift Valley fever virus partial genomic sequences from a patient infected in South Africa in May 2018 suggests reemergence of an endemic lineage different from that of the epidemic in South Africa during 2010-2011. Surveillance during interepidemic periods should be intensified to better predict future epidemics.

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