Evaluating the effects of control interventions and estimating the inapparent infections for dengue outbreak in Hangzhou, China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The number of dengue fever (DF) cases and the number of dengue outbreaks have increased in recent years in Zhejiang Province, China. An unexpected dengue outbreak was reported in Hangzhou in 2017 and caused more than one thousand dengue cases. This study was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of the actual control measures, estimate the proportion of inapparent infections during this outbreak and simulate epidemic development based on different levels of control measures taking inapparent infections into consideration.

Methods

The epidemic data of dengue cases in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, in 2017 and the number of the people exposed to the outbreaks were obtained from the China Information Network System of Disease Prevention and Control. The epidemic wit

SUBMITTER: Wu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6687121 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature