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Revista Costarricense de Salud Pública
versión impresa ISSN 1409-1429
Resumen
GUTIERREZ ALBENDA, David Alberto. Current situation of Dengue as a re-emerging disease in Costa Rica. Rev. costarric. salud pública [online]. 2018, vol.27, n.1, pp.35-41. ISSN 1409-1429.
Study objective:
Analyze Dengue descriptive epidemiology to determine if it currently meets the criteria for a reemerging disease in Costa Rica.
Methods:
A descriptive study was conducted on a time-series for the period of 1993-2016. The information was obtained from secondary sources. The data were analyzed using the Microsoft Excel 2016 application spreadsheet software (v16.0).
Results:
The incidence rate of Dengue cases shows a tendency towards the increase, for the period from 1993 to 2016 (from 0.14% to 0.48% respectively), while fatality rate shows a tendency towards decrease in deaths registered during the same period. This incidence rate tendency means that Dengue remains as a re-emerging disease.
Palabras clave : dengue; dengue fever; Aedes aegypti; emerging infectious diseases; incidence; fatality; Costa Rica.
