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SUBMITTER: Antonio FJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5513438 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Antonio Fernando Jose FJ Itami Andreia Silva AS de Picoli Sergio S Teixeira Jorge Juarez Vieira JJV Mendes Renio Dos Santos RDS
PloS one 20170717 7
Dengue infection plays a central role in our society, since it is the most prevalent vector-borne viral disease affecting humans. We statistically investigated patterns concerning the spatial spreading of dengue epidemics in Brazil, as well as their temporal evolution in all Brazilian municipalities for a period of 12 years. We showed that the distributions of cases in municipalities follow power laws persistent in time and that the infection scales linearly with the population of the municipali ...[more]