Mapping the epidemiology of dengue

Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever: Second Edition

Volumn 9781845939649, Issue , 2014, Pages 30-49

  Brady, Oliver J ^a   Messina, Jane P ^a   Scott, Thomas W ^b,c   Hay, Simon I ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

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