Poverty and Arbovirus Outbreaks: When Chikungunya Virus Hits More Precarious Populations Than Dengue Virus in French Guiana

Bonifay, Timothée; Douine, Maylis; Bonnefoy, C.; Hurpeau, Benoît; Nacher, Mathieu; Djossou, Félix; Epelboin, Loïc

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofx247

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Poverty and Arbovirus Outbreaks: When Chikungunya Virus Hits More Precarious Populations Than Dengue Virus in French Guiana

Published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases • Jan 1, 2017

Authors:

Timothée Bonifay

Maylis Douine

C. Bonnefoy

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Since 2013, 3 successive arbovirus outbreaks, dengue (DENV), chikungunya (CHIKV), and Zika virus, have occurred in French Guiana (FG). The primary objective of this study was to describe the socioeconomic indicators of the first patients infected with CHIKV during the outbreak of 2014. T...

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Chikungunya

Arbovirus

Medicine

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