Inapparent dengue in a community living among dengue-positive Aedes mosquitoes and in a hospital in Klang Valley, Malaysia

• Main Authors: Tan, Wing, Liew, Jonathan Wee Kent, Selvarajoo, Sivaneswari, Lim, Xin Ying, Foo, Chuan Jie, Refai, Wardha F., Robson, Noor Zurani, Othman, Sajaratulnisah, Abdul Hadi, Haireen, Mydin, Fadzilah Hanum Mohd, Malik, Tun Firzara Abdul, Lau, Yee Ling, Vythilingam, Indra
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier 2020
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/24821/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2020.105330

The public health burden of dengue is most likely under reported. Current dengue control measures only considered symptomatic dengue transmission. Hence, there is a paucity of information on the epidemiology of inapparent dengue. This study reports that many people have been unknowingly exposed to d...