The spread of Yellow fever amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa and the ongoing efforts to mitigate it

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicine, Maltepe University, Istanbul, Turkey.
² Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Life Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, The Red-Green Research Centre, BICCB, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁴ Department of medicine, Karachi Medical and Dental College, Karachi, Pakistan.
⁵ Medical School, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
⁶ Department of Internal Medicine, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
⁷ Department of Chemistry, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.
⁸ Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
⁹ Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat, Mohammed 5 University, Morocco.
¹⁰ Department of Medicine and General Surgery, Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
¹¹ Department of Medical Research Center, Kateb University, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Sude Çavdaroğlu et al. J Med Virol. 2021 Sep.

. 2021 Sep;93(9):5223-5225.

doi: 10.1002/jmv.27027. Epub 2021 May 4.

¹ Faculty of Medicine, Maltepe University, Istanbul, Turkey.
² Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Life Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, The Red-Green Research Centre, BICCB, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁴ Department of medicine, Karachi Medical and Dental College, Karachi, Pakistan.
⁵ Medical School, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
⁶ Department of Internal Medicine, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
⁷ Department of Chemistry, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.
⁸ Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
⁹ Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat, Mohammed 5 University, Morocco.
¹⁰ Department of Medicine and General Surgery, Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
¹¹ Department of Medical Research Center, Kateb University, Kabul, Afghanistan.

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All the authors declare that there are no conflict of interests.

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