Research Article

Field Deployment of a Mobile Biosafety Laboratory Reveals the Co-Circulation of Dengue Viruses Serotype 1 and Serotype 2 in Louga City, Senegal, 2017

Table 1

Epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of suspected and confirmed dengue fever cases, Louga, Senegal, 2017.

Negatives (n = 829)Positives (n = 131)Total (n = 960) value

Age0.1492
 Median222021
 Q1, Q312, 3315, 29.7513, 32
Age group<0.0011
 N-Miss360541
 [0, 10]174 (21.9%)7 (5.6%)181 (19.7%)
 [10, 20]207 (26.1%)60 (47.6%)267 (29.1%)
 [20, 30]178 (22.4%)35 (27.8%)213 (23.2%)
 [30, 40]120 (15.1%)20 (15.9%)140 (15.2%)
 [40, 50]58 (7.3%)4 (3.2%)62 (6.7%)
 [50, 90]56 (7.1)0 (0.0%)56 (6.1%)
Sex0.0901
 F452 (54.5%)61 (46.6%)513 (53.4%)
 M377 (45.5%)70 (53.4%)447 (46.6%)
Arthralgia<0.0011
 No341 (41.1%)27 (20.6%)368 (38.3%)
 Yes488 (58.9%)104 (79.4%)592 (61.7%)
Asthenia0.0221
 No475 (57.3%)61 (46.6%)536 (55.8%)
 Yes354 (42.7%)70 (53.4%)424 (44.2%)
Headache0.1101
 No88 (10.6%)8 (6.1%)96 (10.0%)
 Yes741 (89.4%)123 (93.9%)864 (90.0%)
Retro-orbital pain0.1591
 No825 (99.5%)129 (98.5%)954 (99.4%)
 Yes4 (0.5%)2 (1.5%)6 (0.6%)
Rash0.9611
 No823 (99.3%)130 (99.2%)953 (99.3%)
 Yes6 (0.7%)1 (0.8%)7 (0.7%)
Myalgia0.0131
 No470 (56.7%)59 (45%)529 (55.1%)
 Yes359 (43.3%)72 (55%)431 (44.9%)
Outcome0.6581
 Died10 (1.2%)1 (0.8%)11 (1.1%)
 Living819 (98.8%)130 (99.2%)949 (98.9%)
Symptoms-sampling delay0.0832
 Median2.0001.0002.000
 Q1, Q31.000, 3.0001.000, 2.0001.000, 2.000
Medical structure<0.0011
15 (1.8%)0 (0.0%)15 (1.6%)
 DS Dahra117 (14.1)8 (6.1%)125 (13%)
 DS Darou Mousty185 (22.3%)12 (9.2%)197 (20.5)
 DS Kebemer19 (2.3%)0 (0%)19 (2.0%)
 DS KMS41 (4.9%)4 (3.1%)45 (4.7%)
 DS Koki15 (1.8%)2 (1.5%)17 (1.8%)
 DS Linguere28 (3.4%)0 (0.0%)28 (2.9%)
 DS Louga380 (45.8%)105 (80.2%)485 (50.3%)
 DS Sakal29 (3.5%)0 (0.0%)29 (3.0%)

Significant values are indicated in bold. “1” stands for χ2-test or Fisher’s exact test. “2” stands for the Kruskal–Wallis test.