Risk factors for hospitalization and mortality due to dengue fever in a Mexican population: a retrospective cohort study.

Dengue is one of the most prevalent vector-borne diseases in the world, transmitted mainly by the mosquito Aedes aegypti. It is a tropical illness caused by a single-stranded RNA virus from the flavivirus family (Guzman and Harris, 2015a). There are four known serotypes of the virus (DENV 1-4), each one antigenically different. Infection with one of the serotypes will confer long-term immune protection against that precise serotype (Guzman and Harris, 2015b; Uno and Ross, 2018).
Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Source Type: research