Etiologic and Serologic Investigations of the 1980 Epidemic of Dengue Fever on Hainan Island, China
- 1 September 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 35 (5) , 1051-1054
- https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1986.35.1051
Abstract
Virologic and seroepidemiologic studies were carried out during an epidemic of dengue fever on Hainan Island in 1980. Dengue 3 virus was isolated from 46 of 77 acute phase sera and from 1 of 10 pools of adult Aedes aegypti. Dengue 1 virus was isolated from a single acute phase serum. Seroepidemiologic investigations showed that 74% of healthy individuals in the epidemic area had antibody to dengue virus compared to 54% in an area where epidemic dengue had occurred in 1978 and ≤8% in nonepidemic areas. There were no significant differences in antibody prevalence for different sex and age groups.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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