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Economic Cost of Dengue in Puerto Rico
Dengue, endemic in Puerto Rico, reached a record high in 2010. To inform policy makers, we derived annual economic cost. We assessed direct and indirect costs of hospitalized and ambulatory dengue illness in 2010 dollars through surveillance data and interviews with 100 laboratory-confirmed dengue patients treated in 2008-2010. We corrected for underreporting by using setting-specific expansion...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0002-9637,1476-1645
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.11-0784