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SUBMITTER: Vincenti-Gonzalez MF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5893565 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vincenti-Gonzalez M F MF Tami A A Lizarazo E F EF Grillet M E ME
Scientific reports 20180410 1
Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease of global impact. In Venezuela, dengue has emerged as one of the most important public health problems of urban areas with frequent epidemics since 2001. The long-term pattern of this disease has involved not only a general upward trend in cases but also a dramatic increase in the size and frequency of epidemic outbreaks. By assuming that climate variability has a relevant influence on these changes in time, we quantified the periodicity of dengue inciden ...[more]