Estimates of dengue force of infection in children in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

• Main Authors: Clarence C Tam (Author), Hasitha Tissera (Author), Aravinda M de Silva (Author), Aruna Dharshan De Silva (Author), Harold S Margolis (Author), Ananda Amarasinge (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Dengue is the most important vector-borne viral disease worldwide and a major cause of childhood fever burden in Sri Lanka, which has experienced a number of large epidemics in the past decade. Despite this, data on the burden and transmission of dengue virus in the Indian Subcontinent are lacking....