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Dengue/Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever: The Emergence of a Global Health Problem

Year: 1995

Type: article

Abstract: Dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) are caused by one of four closely related, but antigenically distinct, virus serotypes (DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3, and DEN-4), of the genus Flavivirus (1). Infection with one of these serotypes does not provide crossprotective immunity, so persons living in a dengueendemic area can have four dengue infections during their lifetimes. Dengue is primarily an urban disease of the tropics, and the viruses that cause it are maintained in a cycle that involves humans and Aedes aegypti, a domestic, day-biting mosquito that prefers to feed on humans. Infection with a dengue virus serotype can produce a spectrum of clinical illness, ranging from a nonspecific viral syndrome to severe and fatal hemorrhagic disease. Important

Source: Emerging infectious diseases

DOI: 10.3201/eid0102.952004

Authors: Duane J. Gubler, Gary G. Clark

Institutions: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Infectious Diseases

Language: English

Topic: Mosquito-borne diseases and control

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2023590707

FWCI: 24.87

Cites: 8

Cited by: 699

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