Update on dengue: Epidemiology, virus evolution, antiviral drugs, and vaccine development

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 157-164

  Wilder Smith, Annelies ^a   Ooi, Eng Eong ^a   Vasudevan, Subhash G ^a   Gubler, Duane J ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Dengue; Dengue antiviral compounds; Dengue antiviral therapy; Dengue genotypes; Dengue serotypes; Dengue vaccines; Epidemiology of dengue; Expansion of dengue

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053984779     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: 15343146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-010-0102-7     Document Type: Article

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