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Dengue Fever - a Resilient Threat in the Face of Innovation

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Jorge Abelardo Falcón-Lezama
Jorge Abelardo Falcón-Lezama

Juarez Autonomous University of Tabasco, Mexico

Co-editors

Miguel Betancourt-Cravioto
Miguel Betancourt-Cravioto

Mexican Public Health Association

Published30 January 2019

Doi10.5772/intechopen.73901

ISBN978-1-78985-000-0

Print ISBN978-1-78984-999-8

eBook (PDF) ISBN978-1-83881-761-9

Copyright year2019

Number of pages180

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1. Dengue Fever: A General Perspective

By Muhammad Kashif Zahoor, Azhar Rasul, Muhammad Asif Zahoor, Iqra Sarfraz, Muhammad Zulhussnain, Rizwan Rasool, Humara Naz Majeed, Farhat Jabeen and Kanwal Ranian

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2. The Burden of Dengue Illness and Its Economics Costs in the Americas: A Review on the Most Affected Countries

By Raúl Castro Rodríguez, Jorge Armando Rueda-Gallardo and Manuel Felipe Avella-Niño

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3. Ecology of Aedes Mosquitoes, the Major Vectors of Arboviruses in Human Population

By Eliningaya J. Kweka, Vito Baraka, Leah Mathias, Beda Mwang’onde, Germana Baraka, Lucile Lyaruu and Aneth M. Mahande

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5. Urban Ecology and the Effectiveness of Aedes Control

By Wladimir J. Alonso and Benjamin J.J. McCormick

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6. Challenges for the Introduction and Evaluation of the Impact of Innovative Aedes aegypti Control Strategies

By Héctor Gómez-Dantés, Norma Pavía-Ruz, Fabián Correa-Morales, Abdiel Martín-Park, Gonzalo Vázquez-Prokopec and Pablo Manrique-Saide

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7. Mathematical Model as a Tool for the Control of Vector-Borne Diseases: Wolbachia Example

By Meksianis Z. Ndii, Eti D. Wiraningsih, Nursanti Anggriani and Asep K. Supriatna

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8. New Tools for Dengue Diagnostics

By Om Parkash, Punam Kumari, Vasu Deva, Sham Lal, Javed Ahmed Ujjan, Syed Mehmood Qadir, Fateh Muhammad Soomro, Rani Faryal and Nisar Ahmed Kanhar

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9. Current Status of Vaccines against Dengue Virus

By Jhon Carlos Castaño-Osorio, Alejandra María Giraldo-Garcia and Maria Isabel Giraldo

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