Burden of dengue infection in India, 2017: a cross-sectional population based serosurvey

Summary: Background: The burden of dengue virus (DENV) infection across geographical regions of India is poorly quantified. We estimated the age-specific seroprevalence, force of infection, and number of infections in India. Methods: We did a community-based survey in 240 clusters (118 rural, 122 u...

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Main Authors: Manoj V Murhekar, MD, P Kamaraj, MPhil, Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar, MPH, Siraj Ahmed Khan, PhD, Ramesh Reddy Allam, MBBS, Pradip Barde, PhD, Bhagirathi Dwibedi, MD, Suman Kanungo, PhD, Uday Mohan, MD, Suman Sundar Mohanty, PhD, Subarna Roy, PhD, Vivek Sagar, PhD, Deepali Savargaonkar, MBBS, Babasaheb V Tandale, MD, Roshan Kamal Topno, MBBS, Gajanan Sapkal, PhD, C P Girish Kumar, PhD, R Sabarinathan, BE, Velusamy Saravana Kumar, PhD, Sailaja Bitragunta, MAE, Gagandeep Singh Grover, MD, P V M Lakshmi, MD, Chandra Mauli Mishra, MBBS, Provash Sadhukhan, PhD, Prakash Kumar Sahoo, PhD, S K Singh, MD, Chander Prakash Yadav, PhD, Asha Bhagat, MSc, Rashi Srivastava, MSc, E Ramya Dinesh, MSc, T Karunakaran, MSc, C Govindhasamy, MSc, T Daniel Rajasekar, MSc, A Jeyakumar, MPhil, A Suresh, MA, D Augustine, BA, P Ashok Kumar, BA, Rajesh Kumar, MD, Shanta Dutta, PhD, G S Toteja, PhD, Nivedita Gupta, PhD, Sanjay M Mehendale, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-08-01
Series:The Lancet Global Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X19302505