Publications by authors named "Abdoulaye Sam"
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- Chikungunya virus has led to millions of infections globally in the last two decades, with a recent outbreak in the Kedougou region of Senegal, West Africa.
- Genomic studies indicate that the 2023 epidemic in Kedougou is not a result of a new introduction of the virus but rather a resurgence of a previously established strain.
- This endemic strain is evolving over time within a natural environment, suggesting a complex interaction with local ecosystems.
The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the rapid development and implementation of effective surveillance systems to detect and respond to the outbreak in Senegal. In this documentation, we describe the design and implementation of the Community Event-Based Surveillance (CEBS) system in Senegal to strengthen the existing Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response system. The CEBS system used a hotline and toll-free number to collect and triage COVID-19-related calls from the community.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnvironmental surveillance for poliovirus is increasingly used in poliovirus eradication efforts as a supplement to acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance. Environmental surveillance was officially established in 2017 in Senegal, where no poliovirus had been detected since 2010. We tested sewage samples from 2 sites in Dakar monthly for polioviruses.
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