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

ABSTRACT:

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 used a time series generalized additive model based on meteorological factors to assess the effectiveness of this intervention. The results showed that there was significant reduction in mosquito density following the intervention, and there was a 70.47% (95% confidence interval: 66.07%, 74.88%) reduction in the reported dengue cases compared with the predicted cases after 12 days since the beginning of the intervention, we estimated that a total of 23,302 dengue cases were prevent

SUBMITTER: Lin H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4993447 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature