Wilder-Smith, Annelies and Renhorn, Karl Erik and Tissera, Hasitha and AbuBakar, Sazaly and Alphey, Luke and Kittayapong, Pattamaporn and Lindsay, Steve and Logan, James and Hatz, Christoph and Reiter, Paul and Rocklöv, Joacim and Byass, Peter and Louis, Valerie R. and Tozan, Yesim and Massad, Eduardo and Tenorio, Antonio and Lagneau, Christophe and L'Ambert, Gregory and Brooks, David and Wegerdt, Johannah and Gubler, Duane (2012) DengueTools: innovative tools and strategies for the surveillance and control of dengue. Global Health Action, 5 (1). pp. 1-9. ISSN 1654-9716, DOI https://doi.org/10.3402/gha.v5i0.17273.
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Abstract
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne viral disease estimated to cause about 230 million infections worldwide every year, of which 25,000 are fatal. Global incidence has risen rapidly in recent decades with some 3.6 billion people, over half of the world's population, now at risk, mainly in urban centres of the tropics and subtropics. Demographic and societal changes, in particular urbanization, globalization, and increased international travel, are major contributors to the rise in incidence and geographic expansion of dengue infections. Major research gaps continue to hamper the control of dengue. The European Commission launched a call under the 7th Framework Programme with the title of ‘Comprehensive control of Dengue fever under changing climatic conditions’. Fourteen partners from several countries in Europe, Asia, and South America formed a consortium named ‘DengueTools’ to respond to the call to achieve better diagnosis, surveillance, prevention, and predictive models and improve our understanding of the spread of dengue to previously uninfected regions (including Europe) in the context of globalization and climate change.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Dengue; Dengue control; Dengue diagnostics; Economic evaluation; Entomology; Climate change; Early warning systems; Risk mapping; Surveillance; Globalization |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR355 Virology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine |
| Depositing User: | Ms Mulya Mustika Sari Zulkifli |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Oct 2017 01:23 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Dec 2019 02:28 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/17912 |
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