%0 Journal Article
%T Prevalencia de infecci¨®n reciente por dengue en San Mateo, Anzoategui, Venezuela, 2007- 2008
%A Hoyos Rivera
%A Antulio
%A P¨¦rez Rodr¨ªguez
%A Antonio
%J Revista Cubana de Higiene y Epidemiolog£¿-a
%D 2012
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X background: dengue is an infection with different clinical ways of presentation and of a great significance at world scale. objective: to characterize the prevalence of the recent infection due to dengue in san mateo town. methods: universe included 15 000 inhabitants represented by a sample of 535 who were selected by a simple randomized method. a clinical and seroepidemiologic survey was applied. for prevalence estimation authors used the rate by 100 inhabitants. results: the prevalence found was of 14.95 % (95 % ci: 12.1-18.3) involving all age groups and genders. some cases with a typical clinical picture had an igm negative. conclusion: "san mateo" town is an area of dengue transmission.
%K prevalence
%K dengue
%K seroepidemiologic study.
%U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1561-30032012000100004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en