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Li Wei Ang1, Jeffery Cutter2, Lyn James1, Kee Tai Goh2,3.
Abstract
We conducted a pediatric seroprevalence study of dengue virus (DENV) infection in Singapore, a dengue endemic city-state. Residual sera from 1,200 Singapore residents aged 1-17 years seen in two hospitals between 2008 and 2010 were tested for anti-DENV IgG antibodies. The overall seroprevalence was 10.4% (95%CI: 8.7-12.1%). There had been a marked decline in seroprevalence in the 15-19-year age group over the last three decades, while the prevalence in the 1-5-year olds (12.6%) was significantly higher than that of the 1996-1997 pediatric survey (0.8%). The overall dengue seroprevalence in children and adolescents remained low.Entities:
Keywords: dengue; epidemics; pediatric; seroprevalence
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26058712 DOI: 10.1002/jmv.24287
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Virol ISSN: 0146-6615 Impact factor: 2.327