Dogma in Classifying Dengue Disease

Jeremy J. Farrar,* Tran T. Hien, Olaf Horstick, Nguyen T. Hung, Thomas Jaenisch, Thomas Junghanns, Axel Kroeger, Ida S. Laksono, Lucy Lum, Eric Martinez, Cameron P. Simmons, Adriana Tami, Kay M. Tomashek, and Bridget A. Wills Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; Institute of Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; Children’s Hospital Number 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Department of Infectious Diseases, Section of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany; Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom; Department of Paediatrics, The Gadjah Mada University and Dr. Sardjito Teaching Hospital, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Instituto de Medicina Tropical Pedro Kouri, Havana, Cuba; Department of Medical Parasitology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela; Department of Medical Microbiology, Molecular Virology Section, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Dengue Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico