Community Involvement in Dengue Outbreak Control: An Integrated Rigorous Intervention Strategy.

• Main Authors: Hualiang Lin (Author), Tao Liu (Author), Tie Song (Author), Lifeng Lin (Author), Jianpeng Xiao (Author), Jinyan Lin (Author), Jianfeng He (Author), Haojie Zhong (Author), Wenbiao Hu (Author), Aiping Deng (Author), Zhiqiang Peng (Author), Wenjun Ma (Author), Yonghui Zhang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:An explosive outbreak of dengue fever occurred in Guangdong Province, China in 2014. A community-based integrated intervention was applied to control this outbreak in the capital city Guangzhou, where dengue epidemic was mainly caused by imported cases. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:We u...