Awareness about dengue syndrome and related preventive practices amongst residents of an urban resettlement colony of south Delhi.
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Dengue is the most common disease among all the arthropod-borne viral diseases. Due to occurrence of remarkable changes in the epidemiology of dengue, currently dengue ranks as the most important mosquito-borne viral disease in the world. In the past 50 years, its incidence has increased 30-fold with significant outbreaks occurring in five of the six World Health Organization (WHO) regions. At present, dengue is endemic in 112 countries in the world1,2.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of vector borne diseases
دوره 42 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005