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Dengue Characteristics




Infectious agent: Flavivirus, with four serotypes

Vector: Aedes spp.; mosquitoes are day-biting, common in urban environments; larval habitat usually containers in or around houses

Reservoir: Virus maintained in human-mosquito cycle

Occurrence

Dengue Distribution

Sources

Benenson, A. (ed). 1995. Control of Communicable Diseases Manual. 16th Ed., American Public Health Association, Washington, DC.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 1999. Health Information for International Travel 1999-2000. DHHS, Atlanta, GA.

Isselbacher, K.J., J.B Martin, E. Braunwald, A.S. Fauci, J.D. Wilson, D.L. Kasper (eds). 1994. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. 13th Ed. McGraw-Hill, Inc.

Jong, E.C., and R. McMullen (eds). 1995. The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual. 2nd Ed., W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia.

Tierney, L.M., Jr., S.J. McPhee, M.A. Papadakis (eds). 1996. Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment. 35th Ed. Appleton and Lange, Stamford, CT.

World Health Organization. 1997. Progress Report 1996. Division of Control of Tropical Diseases (CTD). Geneva, Switzerland.


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Last updated: February 2002