Estimating the annual dengue force of infection from the age of reporting primary infections across urban centres in endemic countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stratifying dengue risk within endemic countries is crucial for allocating limited control interventions. Current methods of monitoring dengue transmission intensity rely on potentially inaccurate incidence estimates. We investigated whether incidence or alternate metrics obtained from standard, or laboratory, surveillance operations represent accurate surrogate indicators of the burden of dengue and can be used to monitor the force of infection (FOI) across urban centres.

Methods

Among those who reported and resided in 13 cities across the Philippines, we collected epidemiological data from all dengue case reports between 2014 and 2017 (N 80,043) and additional laboratory data from a cross-section of sampled case reports (N 11,906) between 2014 and 2018. At the c

SUBMITTER: Biggs JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8482604 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature