Implementing an hospital-based encephalitis surveillance in Senegal to decipher main causes of viral encephalitis in a West-African Low-Income Country.
The Encephalitis Society
Institut Pasteur de Dakar
The main objective of the project is to characterize the aetiology and the clinics of the encephalitis hospitalized in Senegal. To reach this objective, three specific aims have been identified: Specific aim 1: Detect and estimate prevalence of the different viruses associated to encephalitis. Specific aim 2: Describe the clinical features specific to each viral infection and the population under investigation
2.1 Biological and endogenous factors