Dengue Surveillance in Colombo, Sri Lanka: Baseline seroprevalence among children

Procedia in Vaccinology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 109-112

  Tissera, H A ^a   De Silva, A D ^b   Abeysinghe, M R N ^a   de Silva, A M ^c   Palihawadana, P ^d   Gunasena, S ^e   Tam, C C ^f   Gamage, T M ^b   De Silva, T ^b   Rajapaksa, L C ^g   Amarasinghe, A ^h   Letson, G W ^h   Margolis, H S ^h  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Sri Lanka)

^b Genetech Research Institute   (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Epidemiology Unit Ministry of Health   (Sri Lanka)

^e Medical Research Institute Colombo   (Sri Lanka)

^f LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^g International Vaccine Institute ^*

^h International Vaccine Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Dengue in Sri Lanka; Dengue infection; Dengue surveillance

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROCONVERSION; SEROPREVALENCE; SRI LANKA;

EID: 77950648553     PISSN: 1877282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.provac.2010.03.020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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