Disease Burden of Dengue in the Philippines: Adjusting for Underreporting by Comparing Active and Passive Dengue Surveillance in Punta Princesa, Cebu City

A. Undurraga, Eduardo; Edillo, Frances; Neil V. Erasmo, Jonathan; Theresa Alera, Maria; Yoon, In-Kyu; M. Largo, Francisco; S. Shepard, Donald

doi:10.4269/ajtmh.16-0488

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Disease Burden of Dengue in the Philippines: Adjusting for Underreporting by Comparing Active and Passive Dengue Surveillance in Punta Princesa, Cebu City

Published in American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene • Jan 17, 2017

Authors:

Eduardo A. Undurraga

Frances Edillo

Jonathan Neil V. Erasmo

Abstract

Dengue virus (DENV) is a serious threat to public health. Having reliable estimates of the burden of dengue is important to inform policy and research, but surveillance systems are not designed to capture all symptomatic DENV infections. We derived the rate of reporting of dengue by comparing active...

Subject

Dengue fever

Medicine

Dengue virus

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