Dengue Outbreak during Ongoing Civil War, Taiz, Yemen

We identified dengue in ≈51% of patients given a clinical diagnosis of suspected dengue in Taiz, Yemen, during 2016. The cosmopolitan genotype of dengue virus type 2 was most common; viruses appeared to have originated in Saudi Arabia. Damage to public health infrastructure during the ongoing civil...

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Autores principales: Alghazali, KhairAlah A., Teoh, Boon-Teong, Loong, Shih-Keng, Sam, Sing-Sin, Che-Mat-Seri, Nurul-Asma-Anati, Samsudin, Nur-Izyan, Yaacob, Che-Norainon, Azizan, Noor-Syahida, Oo, Adrian, Baharudin, Nur-Adilah, Tan, Kim-Kee, Abd-Jamil, Juraina, Nor’e, Siti-Sarah, Khor, Chee-Sieng, Johari, Jefree, Mahdy, Mohammed A.K., AbuBakar, Sazaly
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6590741/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30924766
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2507.180046
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Sumario:We identified dengue in ≈51% of patients given a clinical diagnosis of suspected dengue in Taiz, Yemen, during 2016. The cosmopolitan genotype of dengue virus type 2 was most common; viruses appeared to have originated in Saudi Arabia. Damage to public health infrastructure during the ongoing civil war might enable dengue to become endemic to Yemen.

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