International Dispersal of Dengue through Air Travel: Importation Risk for Europe

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Semenza, Jan C ^a   Sudre, Bertrand ^a   Miniota, Jennifer ^b   Rossi, Massimiliano ^a   Hu, Wei ^b   Kossowsky, David ^b   Suk, Jonathan E ^a   Van Bortel, Wim ^a   Khan, Kamran ^b,c  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ARTICLE; AVIATION; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRAVEL; AEDES; ANIMAL; FEMALE; INSECT VECTOR; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; RISK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

AEDES; AIR TRAVEL; ANIMALS; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; RISK;

EID: 84928242314     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003278     Document Type: Article

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