The 2007 dengue outbreak in Singapore

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 138, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 958-959

  Ooi, E E ^a,b   Wilder Smith, A ^a,c   Ng, L C ^d   Gubler, D J ^a,e  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^b DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FOREST; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; INCIDENCE; LETTER; LIFESPAN; PHYSICIAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROPREVALENCE; SINGAPORE; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AIR POLLUTION; ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; DENGUE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICULATE MATTER; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SINGAPORE;

EID: 77953615093     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810000026     Document Type: Letter

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