Transmission dynamics of the ongoing chikungunya outbreak in Central Italy: from coastal areas to the metropolitan city of Rome, summer 2017

A large chikungunya outbreak is ongoing in Italy, with a main cluster in the Anzio coastal municipality. With preliminary epidemiological data, and a transmission model using mosquito abundance and biting rates, we estimated the basic reproduction number R0 at 2.07 (95% credible interval: 1.47–2.59) and the first case importation between 21 May and 18 June 2017. Outbreak risk was higher in coastal/rural sites than urban ones. Novel transmission foci could occur up to mid-November.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

• Publication date

  2017-11-02

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.44.17-00685PMID 29113629PMCID 5710132
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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