Recent shift in age pattern of dengue hemorrhagic fever, Brazil

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1663-

  Teixeira, Maria Gloria ^a   Costa, Maria Conceição N ^a   Coelho, Giovanini ^b   Barreto, Mauricio L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b MINISTÉRIO DA SAÚDE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BRAZIL; DENGUE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MEDICAL INFORMATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 54249143502     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1410.071164     Document Type: Letter

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