Attack rates of dengue fever in Swedish travellers

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 412-417

  Rocklöv, Joacim ^a   Lohr, Wolfgang ^a   Hjertqvist, Marika ^b   Wilder Smith, Annelies ^a,c  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control   (Sweden)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Attack rate; Dengue; Dengue importation; Swedish travellers; Travel medicine; Travellers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; DENGUE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INDIA; INDONESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; PHILIPPINES; SRI LANKA; SWEDEN; THAILAND; TRAVEL; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; EMPORIATRICS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SRI LANKA; SWEDEN; THAILAND; TRAVEL; TRAVEL MEDICINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900867515     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365548.2014.887222     Document Type: Article

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