The Hidden Burden of Dengue and Chikungunya in Chennai, India.

• Main Authors: Isabel Rodríguez-Barraquer (Author), Sunil S Solomon (Author), Periaswamy Kuganantham (Author), Aylur Kailasom Srikrishnan (Author), Canjeevaram K Vasudevan (Author), Syed H Iqbal (Author), Pachamuthu Balakrishnan (Author), Suniti Solomon (Author), Shruti H Mehta (Author), Derek A T Cummings (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Dengue and chikungunya are rapidly expanding viruses transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Aedes. Few epidemiological studies have examined the extent of transmission of these infections in South India despite an increase in the number of reported cases, and a high suitability for transmission.We c...