Imported dengue fever/dengue hemorrhagic fever cases in Japan
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Imported dengue fever/dengue hemorrhagic fever cases in Japan
Several dengue outbreaks occurred in Japan from 1942 to 1945. Dengue fever emerged in Nagasaki in August 1942 and soon spread to other cities such as Sasebo, Hiroshima, Kobe and Osaka, recurring every summer until 1945 and constituting the greatest outbreak in the temperate zone. Domestic outbreaks have not been reported in Japan since then. However, the number of imported dengue cases has incr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tropical Medicine and Health
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1349-4147,1348-8945
DOI: 10.2149/tmh.2011-s07