A comparison of passive surveillance and active cluster-based surveillance for dengue fever in southern coastal Ecuador

• Main Authors: Melissa Vitale (Author), Christina D. Lupone (Author), Aileen Kenneson-Adams (Author), Robinson Jaramillo Ochoa (Author), Tania Ordoñez (Author), Efráin Beltran-Ayala (Author), Timothy P. Endy (Author), Paula F. Rosenbaum (Author), Anna M. Stewart-Ibarra (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Dengue is a major emerging infectious disease, endemic throughout the tropics and subtropics, with approximately 2.5 billion people at risk globally. Active (AS) and passive surveillance (PS), when combined, can improve our understanding of dengue's complex disease dynamics...