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The global distribution and burden of dengue

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  • Samir Bhatt

    (Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Tinbergen Building, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK)

  • Peter W. Gething

    (Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Tinbergen Building, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK)

  • Oliver J. Brady

    (Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Tinbergen Building, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
    Oxitec Limited, Milton Park, Abingdon OX14 4RX, UK)

  • Jane P. Messina

    (Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Tinbergen Building, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK)

  • Andrew W. Farlow

    (Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Tinbergen Building, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK)

  • Catherine L. Moyes

    (Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Tinbergen Building, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK)

  • John M. Drake

    (Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Tinbergen Building, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
    Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia)

  • John S. Brownstein

    (Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital)

  • Anne G. Hoen

    (Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College)

  • Osman Sankoh

    (INDEPTH Network Secretariat, East Legon, PO Box KD 213, Accra, Ghana
    School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Braamfontein 2000, Johannesburg, South Africa
    Institute of Public Health, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany)

  • Monica F. Myers

    (Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Tinbergen Building, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK)

  • Dylan B. George

    (Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health)

  • Thomas Jaenisch

    (Section Clinical Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, INF 324, D 69120 Heidelberg, Germany)

  • G. R. William Wint

    (Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Tinbergen Building, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
    Environmental Research Group Oxford (ERGO), Tinbergen Building, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK)

  • Cameron P. Simmons

    (Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
    Centre for Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford OX3 7LJ, UK)

  • Thomas W. Scott

    (Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health
    University of California Davis)

  • Jeremy J. Farrar

    (Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
    Centre for Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford OX3 7LJ, UK
    National University of Singapore, 119228 Singapore)

  • Simon I. Hay

    (Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Tinbergen Building, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
    Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health)

Abstract

The public health burden of dengue is unknown; here cartographic approaches are used to provide insight into the global, regional and national burden of dengue, with the finding that the global number of infections per year is around 390 million, more than three times the estimate of the World Health Organization.

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  • Samir Bhatt & Peter W. Gething & Oliver J. Brady & Jane P. Messina & Andrew W. Farlow & Catherine L. Moyes & John M. Drake & John S. Brownstein & Anne G. Hoen & Osman Sankoh & Monica F. Myers & Dylan , 2013. "The global distribution and burden of dengue," Nature, Nature, vol. 496(7446), pages 504-507, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:496:y:2013:i:7446:d:10.1038_nature12060
    DOI: 10.1038/nature12060
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