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Dengue fever and <i>Aedes aegypti</i> risk in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador

2017-03-06

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<h4>Introduction</h4> Dengue fever is an emerging infectious disease in the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador, with the first cases reported in 2002 and periodic outbreaks since then. Here we report the results of a pilot study conducted in two cities in 2014: Puerto Ayora (PA) on Santa Cruz Island, and Puerto Baquerizo Moreno (PB) on Santa Cristobal Island. The aims of this study were to assess the social-ecological...

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Literature Corpus work: e790774c-33f5-56f4-a41d-acd79685037b
DOI: 10.1101/113829

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