Pillaveetil Sathyadas Indu, Thekkumkara Surendran Anish, Sujatha Chintha, Gnanaseelan Kanakamma Libu, Lawrence Tony, Nalinakshan Sudha Siju, Easwaran Sreekumar, Asokan Santhoshkumar, Reghukumar Aravind, Karunakaran Lalithabai Saradadevi, Sahadevan Sunija, Jaichand Johnson, Madhukumar Geethakumari Anupriya, Thomas Mathew, Kalathil Joseph Reena, Vasu Meenakshy, Premaletha Namitha, Narendran Pradeep Kumar, Roop Kumari, Ahmed Jamsheed Mohamed, Bhupender Nagpal, Swarup Sarkar, Rajeev Sadanandan, Raman Velayudhan
BACKGROUND: Dengue shows high geographic heterogeneity within and across endemic countries. In the context of increasing burden and predicted outbreaks due to climate change, understanding the heterogeneity will enable us to develop region specific targeted interventions, including vaccination. World Health Organisation (WHO) suggests standard methodologies to study the burden and heterogeneity at national and subnational levels. Regional studies with robust and standard methodology to capture heterogeneity are scarce...
March 2024: Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia