Burden of chikungunya in Latin American countries: Estimates of disability-adjusted life-years (DALY) lost in the 2014 epidemic

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue , 2015, Pages 60-61

  Cardona Ospina, Jaime Andrés ^a   Diaz Quijano, Fredi Alexander ^b   Rodríguez Morales, Alfonso J ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PEREIRA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Organizacion Latinoamericana para el Fomento de la Investigacion en Salud (OLFIS)   (Colombia)

^d Scientific Committee on Zoonoses and Haemorrhagic Fevers   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; BRAZIL; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHILE; COLOMBIA; COSTA RICA; CUBA; DISABILITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; ECUADOR; EL SALVADOR; EPIDEMIC; FUNCTIONAL STATUS ASSESSMENT; GUATEMALA; HONDURAS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; LETTER; MEXICO; NICARAGUA; PANAMA; PARAGUAY; PERU; PUERTO RICO; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; URUGUAY; VENEZUELA; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; COST OF ILLNESS; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR;

CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; COST OF ILLNESS; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS;

EID: 84938779514     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: 18783511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2015.07.015     Document Type: Letter

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