Entomological assessment of dengue virus transmission risk in three urban areas of Kenya.

• Main Authors: Sheila B Agha (Author), David P Tchouassi (Author), Michael J Turell (Author), Armanda D S Bastos (Author), Rosemary Sang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Urbanization is one of the major drivers of dengue epidemics globally. In Kenya, an intriguing pattern of urban dengue virus epidemics has been documented in which recurrent epidemics are reported from the coastal city of Mombasa, whereas no outbreaks occur in the two major inland cities of Kisumu a...