Journal article
A comparison of Zika and dengue outbreaks using national surveillance data in the Dominican Republic.
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BACKGROUND: Aedes-borne arboviruses continue to precipitate epidemics worldwide. In Dominican Republic, the appearance of Zika virus cases that closely followed a large dengue epidemic provided an opportunity to study the different transmission drivers behind these two flaviviruses. Retrospective datasets were used to collect information on the populations at risk and descriptive statistics were used to describe the outbreaks on a national scale. METHODOLOGY/ PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Expectedly, b...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS neglected tropical diseases Journal website
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 11
- Article number:
- e0006876
- Publication date:
- 2018-11-05
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-09-26
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1935-2735
- ISSN:
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1935-2727
- Pmid:
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30395564
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:1059488
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uuid:47be4b90-7b00-4e1c-8272-87abe8e1a028
- Local pid:
- pubs:1059488
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1059488
- Deposit date:
- 2019-11-27
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- Copyright holder:
- Bowman et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2018 Bowman et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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