This study aims to understand the relationship between neighbourhood characteristics and the spatial distribution of dengue in urban slum community of Salvador, Brazil and highlights that there is large burden of dengue in poor urban slums and within slum communities the social gradient influence dengue transmission.
Kikuti M, Cunha GM, Paploski IAD, Kasper AM, Silva MMO, Tavares AS, Cruz JS, Queiroz TL, Rodrigues MS, Santana PM, Lima HCAV, Calcagno J, Takahashi D, Gonçalves AHO, Araújo JMG, Gauthier K, Diuk-Wasser MA, Kitron U, Ko AI, Reis MG, Ribeiro GS, Spatial Distribution of Dengue in a Brazalian Urban Slum Setting: Role of Socioeconomic Gradient in Disease Risk, 2015, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol: 9, No: 7, e0003937.
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