Relationship between transmission intensity and incidence of dengue hemorrhagic fever in Thailand.

• Main Authors: Suwich Thammapalo (Author), Yoshiro Nagao (Author), Wataru Sakamoto (Author), Seeviga Saengtharatip (Author), Masaaki Tsujitani (Author), Yasuhide Nakamura (Author), Paul G Coleman (Author), Clive Davies (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Dengue is the most prevalent mosquito-borne virus, and potentially fatal dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) occurs mainly in secondary infections. It recently was hypothesized that, due to the presence of cross-immunity, the relationship between the incidence of DHF and transmission intensit...