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A study on knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding dengue fever, its prevention and management among dengue patients presenting to a tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka

BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) has ranked dengue as one of the top ten threats to Global health in 2019. Sri Lanka faced a massive dengue epidemic in 2017, the largest outbreak in the country during the last three decades, consisting of 186,101 reported cases, and over 320 deaths. T...

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Autores principales:	Jayawickreme, K. P., Jayaweera, D. K., Weerasinghe, S., Warapitiya, D., Subasinghe, S.
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2021
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8454131/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34544378 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06685-5

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