The Risk of Dengue Virus Transmission in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania during an Epidemic Period of 2014

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Mboera, Leonard E G ^a   Mweya, Clement N ^a   Rumisha, Susan F ^a   Tungu, Patrick K ^a   Stanley, Grades ^a   Makange, Mariam R ^b   Misinzo, Gerald ^b   De Nardo, Pasquale ^c   Vairo, Francesco ^c   Oriyo, Ndekya M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^b SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPE; TANZANIA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; AEDES; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INSECT VECTOR; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PUPA; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

AEDES; ANIMALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LARVA; MALE; PUPA; TANZANIA;

EID: 84956474286     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004313     Document Type: Article

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