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Acquisition of virulence genes by a carrier strain gave rise to the ongoing epidemics of meningococcal disease in West Africa

Brynildsrud OB, Eldholm V, Bohlin J, Uadiale K, Obaro S,  et al.
2018-05-07 • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2018-05-07 • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
In the African meningitis belt, a region of sub-Saharan Africa comprising 22 countries from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east, large epidemics of serogroup A meningococcal meni...
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El Niño and the shifting geography of cholera in Africa

Moore SM, Azman AS, Zaitchik BF, Mintz ED, Brunkard J,  et al.
2017-04-10 • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2017-04-10 • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and other climate patterns can have profound impacts on the occurrence of infectious diseases ranging from dengue to cholera. In Africa, El Niño c...
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Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Superspreading Events in the 2014-2015 West Africa Ebola Epidemic

Lau MSY, Dalziel BD, Funk S, McClelland A, Tiffany A,  et al.
2017-02-13 • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2017-02-13 • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The unprecedented scale of the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa (2014-2015) has prompted an explosion of efforts to understand the transmission dynamics of the virus and to analyze the p...
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Estimation of Rift Valley fever virus spillover to humans during the Mayotte 2018–2019 epidemic

Metras R, Edmunds WJ, Youssouffi C, Dommergues L, Fournié G,  et al.
2020-09-29 • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2020-09-29 • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an emerging, zoonotic, arboviral hemorrhagic fever threatening livestock and humans mainly in Africa. RVF is of global concern, having expanded its geographica...