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Laboratory surveillance of dengue in Argentina, 1995-2001
Gabriela Avilés1, Maria Valeria Paz, Griselda Rangeon
1Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas (INEVH), Pergamino, Argentina. aviles@unr.nevada.edu
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|June 5, 2003
Abstract:
Local transmission of dengue fever virus in Argentina is increased by the presence of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and dengue outbreaks in neighboring countries. From 1995 to 2001, a laboratory-based active surveillance program detected 922 dengue cases. Indigenous transmission involving dengue-1 and -2 serotypes was confirmed only in subtropical areas in northern Argentina.