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The re-emergence of dengue in China
The number of reports in the literature on dengue outbreaks in various parts of south China is increasing. This trend is likely contributed to by multiple factors, chief among which is the increase in trade and human movement in and out of China from the Southeast Asian region where dengue is firmly...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4411874/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25925732 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-015-0345-0 |
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description | The number of reports in the literature on dengue outbreaks in various parts of south China is increasing. This trend is likely contributed to by multiple factors, chief among which is the increase in trade and human movement in and out of China from the Southeast Asian region where dengue is firmly endemic. However, a holistic picture of dengue in China and how the public health authorities are responding to this global health challenge has been missing. In a research article published in BMC Medicine, Lai et al. have now filled this gap in knowledge by analysing statutorily mandated national dengue surveillance data from 1990 till 2014. They also conducted time series analyses to identify key drivers of dengue transmission in south China as well as from south China to the other parts of this vast and populous country. Their findings, as well as the description of surveillance and disease control activities in China, highlight urgent steps that need to be taken if China wishes to prevent itself from becoming another country that experiences large and frequent cycles of epidemic dengue. Please see related article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-015-0336-1. |
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spelling | pubmed-44118742015-04-29 The re-emergence of dengue in China Ooi, Eng Eong BMC Med Commentary The number of reports in the literature on dengue outbreaks in various parts of south China is increasing. This trend is likely contributed to by multiple factors, chief among which is the increase in trade and human movement in and out of China from the Southeast Asian region where dengue is firmly endemic. However, a holistic picture of dengue in China and how the public health authorities are responding to this global health challenge has been missing. In a research article published in BMC Medicine, Lai et al. have now filled this gap in knowledge by analysing statutorily mandated national dengue surveillance data from 1990 till 2014. They also conducted time series analyses to identify key drivers of dengue transmission in south China as well as from south China to the other parts of this vast and populous country. Their findings, as well as the description of surveillance and disease control activities in China, highlight urgent steps that need to be taken if China wishes to prevent itself from becoming another country that experiences large and frequent cycles of epidemic dengue. Please see related article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-015-0336-1. BioMed Central 2015-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4411874/ /pubmed/25925732 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-015-0345-0 Text en © Ooi; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Ooi, Eng Eong The re-emergence of dengue in China |
title | The re-emergence of dengue in China |
title_full | The re-emergence of dengue in China |
title_fullStr | The re-emergence of dengue in China |
title_full_unstemmed | The re-emergence of dengue in China |
title_short | The re-emergence of dengue in China |
title_sort | re-emergence of dengue in china |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4411874/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25925732 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-015-0345-0 |
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