Clinical and epidemiological features of the 2014 large-scale dengue outbreak in Guangzhou city, China

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Lin, Yong Ping ^a   Luo, Yasha ^b,d   Chen, Yuan ^a   Lamers, Mart Matthias ^c   Zhou, Qiang ^b   Yang, Xiao Han ^b   Sanyal, Sumana ^c   Mok, Chris Ka Pun ^c   Liu, Zhong Min ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGDONG PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^c HKU PASTEUR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Hong Kong)

^d GUANGDONG WOMEN AND CHILDREN HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

China; Clinical; Dengue; Endemic; Outbreak

Indexed keywords

NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 1; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS 1; DENGUE VIRUS 2; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVELOPE GENE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDIA; MALAYSIA; MALE; NON STRUCTURAL GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; SINGAPORE; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; DENGUE VIRUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN HEALTH; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROGROUP; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84978761879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-016-1379-4     Document Type: Article

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