Yellow fever outbreak, southern Sudan, 2003.
In May 2003, an outbreak of fatal hemorrhagic fever, caused by yellow fever virus, occurred in southern Sudan. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the virus belonged to the East African genotype, which supports the contention that yellow fever is endemic in East Africa with the potential to cause large outbreaks in humans.
Onyango
Clayton O
CO
World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research at Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
Grobbelaar
Antoinette A
AA
Gibson
Georgina V F
GV
Sang
Rosemary C
RC
Sow
Abdourahmane
A
Swaneopel
Robert
R
Burt
Felicity J
FJ
D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000737:chemistry; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006801:Humans; D010802:Phylogeny; D011159:Population Surveillance; D013397:Sudan / Q000453:epidemiology; D015004:Yellow Fever / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D015005:Yellow fever virus / Q000235:genetics
D004279:DNA, Viral