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Age and Clinical Dengue Illness
Joseph R. Eggera b, P. Colemana
- aLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- bLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. joe.egger@lshtm.ac.uk
Emerging infectious diseasesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention2007-06-01 99 citations10 references
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Abstract
The relationship between age and risk for classic dengue fever has never been quantified. We use data from clinical patients to show that the relative risk of having classical disease after primary dengue virus infection increases with age. This relationship has implications for strategies aimed at controlling dengue fever.
TL;DRData from clinical patients is used to show that the relative risk of having classical disease after primary dengue virus infection increases with age, which has implications for strategies aimed at controlling d Dengue fever. (Semantic Scholar)