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Article: Indigenous dengue fever, Buenos Aires, Argentina.(LETTERS)
- Article from:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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To the Editor: For 2 decades dengue has increased in the Americas, with epidemic peaks every 3 to 5 years (1). The disease has reemerged in 3 South American countries bordering Argentina, namely, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay.
Argentina had remained free from dengue for >80 years before the disease was reintroduced in 1998 (2) as a consequence of insufficient mosquito control and importation of cases from disease-epidemic areas. Since then, indigenous dengue circulation has only been reported in the northern provinces of the country, which are close to endemoepidemic countries. However, the principal dengue vector, the Aedes aegypti mosquito,, has spread ...