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SUBMITTER: Salmon-Mulanovich G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4596582 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Salmon-Mulanovich Gabriela G Blazes David L DL Lescano Andres G AG Bausch Daniel G DG Montgomery Joel M JM Pan William K WK
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20150727 4
Dengue virus (DENV) was reintroduced to Peru in the 1990s and has been reported in Puerto Maldonado (population ~65,000) in the Peruvian southern Amazon basin since 2000. This region also has the highest human migration rate in the country, mainly from areas not endemic for DENV. The objective of this study was to assess the proportion of household income that is diverted to costs incurred because of dengue illness and to compare these expenses between recent migrants (RMs) and long-term residen ...[more]