Journal article
Contributions from the silent majority dominate dengue virus transmission
- Abstract:
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Despite estimates that, each year, as many as 300 million dengue virus (DENV) infections result in either no perceptible symptoms (asymptomatic) or symptoms that are sufficiently mild to go undetected by surveillance systems (inapparent), it has been assumed that these infections contribute little to onward transmission. However, recent blood-feeding experiments with Aedes aegypti mosquitoes showed that people with asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic DENV infections are capable of infecting mosq...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
+ National Institutes of Health
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Funding agency for:
Clapham, H
Grant:
5R01AI102939-03
+ Investissement d’Avenir program
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Funding agency for:
Lambrechts, L
Grant:
ANR-10-LABX-62-IBEID
+ US National Institutes of Health
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Funding agency for:
Scott, T
Grant:
P01AI098670
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS Pathogens Journal website
- Volume:
- 14
- Issue:
- 5
- Article number:
- e1006965
- Publication date:
- 2018-05-03
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-03-09
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1553-7374
- ISSN:
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1553-7366
- Pmid:
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29723307
- Source identifiers:
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846784
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:846784
- UUID:
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uuid:b6a132df-d262-4029-be16-57267bece2ca
- Local pid:
- pubs:846784
- Deposit date:
- 2018-06-07
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- Copyright holder:
- © 2018 ten Bosch et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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