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Dengue epidemic in Belém, Pará, Brazil, 1996-97
A P Trravassos da Rosa1, P F Vasconcelos, E S Travassos Da Rosa
1Instituto Evandro Chagas, Belém, Pará, Brazil. pedrovasconcelos@iec.pa.gov.br
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|May 29, 2000
Abstract:
We describe clinical and epidemiologic findings during the first epidemic of dengue fever in Belém, Pará State, Brazil, in 1996-97. Of 40,237 serum samples, 17,440 (43%) were positive for dengue by virus isolation or serologic testing. No hemorrhagic cases or deaths were reported. Mycobacterium tuberculosis