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Hammer CC, Diallo MD, Kann B, Sanoh F, Leno TN, Mansare O, Diakité I, Sow AD, Konate Y, Ryan-Castillo E, Barry AM, Standley CJ. High prevalence of asymptomatic malaria in Forest Guinea: Results from a rapid community survey. Epidemiol Infect 2023; 152:e1. [PMID: 38050416 PMCID: PMC10789974 DOI: 10.1017/s0950268823001929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2023] [Revised: 10/07/2023] [Accepted: 11/28/2023] [Indexed: 12/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Malaria is endemic in Guinea; however, the extent and role in transmission of asymptomatic malaria are not well understood. In May 2023, we conducted a rapid community survey to determine Plasmodium falciparum (P. falciparum) prevalence among asymptomatic individuals in Middle Guinea (Prefecture Dalaba) and Forest Guinea (Prefecture Guéckédou). In Dalaba, 6 of 239 (2.1%, confidence interval (CI) 0.9-4.8%) individuals tested positive for P. falciparum by a rapid diagnostic test (RDT), while in Guéckédou, 147 of 235 (60.9%, CI 54.5-66.9%) participants tested positive. Asymptomatic malaria needs to be considered more strongly as a driver of transmission when designing control strategies, especially in Forest Guinea and potentially other hyper-endemic settings.
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- Santé Plus, Conakry, Guinea
- ISSMV, Laboratoire, Dalaba, Guinea
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- Georgetown University, Center for Global Health Science and Security, Washington, DC, USA
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- Georgetown University, Center for Global Health Science and Security, Washington, DC, USA
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Makenov MT, Boumbaly S, Tolno FR, Sacko N, N'Fatoma LT, Mansare O, Kolie B, Stukolova OA, Morozkin ES, Kholodilov IS, Zhurenkova OB, Fyodorova MV, Akimkin VG, Popova AY, Conde N, Boiro MY, Karan LS. Marburg virus in Egyptian Rousettus bats in Guinea: Investigation of Marburg virus outbreak origin in 2021. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2023; 17:e0011279. [PMID: 37099617 PMCID: PMC10166547 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0011279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2022] [Revised: 05/08/2023] [Accepted: 03/31/2023] [Indexed: 04/27/2023] Open
Abstract
In 2021, a patient died from Marburg virus (MARV) disease in Guinea and it was the first confirmed case in West Africa. The origin of the outbreak has not been identified. It was revealed that the patient didn't travel anywhere before the illness. Prior to outbreak, MARV had been found in bats in the neighboring Sierra Leone, but never in Guinea. Therefore, the origin of infection is unclear: was it an autochthonous case with spillover from a local population of bats or an imported case with spillover from fruit bats foraging/migrating from Sierra Leone? In this paper, we studied Rousettus aegyptiacus in Guinea as the possible source of MARV infection caused the patient death in 2021 in Guinea. We caught bats in 32 sites of Guéckédou prefecture, including seven caves and 25 locations of the flight path. A total of 501 fruit bats (Pteropodidae) were captured, including 66 R. aegyptiacus. The PCR screening showed three positive MARV R. aegyptiacus, roosting in two caves discovered in Guéckédou prefecture. After Sanger sequencing and phylogenetic analyses it was shown that found MARV belongs to the Angola-like lineage but it is not identical to the isolate obtained during the outbreak of 2021.
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- Marat T Makenov
- Department of Molecular Diagnostics and Epidemiology, Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia
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- Virology Research Center/Laboratory of Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, Conakry, Guinea
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- International Center for Research of Tropical Infections in Guinea, N'Zerekore, Guinea
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- International Center for Research of Tropical Infections in Guinea, N'Zerekore, Guinea
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- Department of Biology, Laboratory of Medical Zoology, University of Kindia, Kindia, Guinea
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- Department of Molecular Diagnostics and Epidemiology, Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Molecular Diagnostics and Epidemiology, Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Molecular Diagnostics and Epidemiology, Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia
- Laboratory of Biology of Arboviruses, FSASI Chumakov Federal Scientific Center for Research and Development of Immune-and-Biological Products of RAS, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Molecular Diagnostics and Epidemiology, Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Molecular Diagnostics and Epidemiology, Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Molecular Diagnostics and Epidemiology, Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia
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- Administration, Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing, Moscow, Russia
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- International Center for Research of Tropical Infections in Guinea, N'Zerekore, Guinea
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- Directorate Research Institute of Applied Biology of Guinea, Kindia, Guinea
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- Department of Molecular Diagnostics and Epidemiology, Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia
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