Additional considerations for assessing COVID-19 impact on dengue transmission
Lancet Infectious Diseases
; 22(6):762-763, 2022.
Article
in English
| CAB Abstracts | ID: covidwho-2034525
ABSTRACT
This article reported an astounding drop in dengue risk in 2020 attributable to public health and social measures during the pandemic. Taking population immunity into account, this study acknowledged how the unprecedented dengue burden of 2019 might have driven high immunity to dengue in 2020. This study also mentioned idiosyncrasies in the model that could not be explained. Moreover, it also adds possible considerations of (1) administrative delays and (2) genotype-replacement events driving the 2019 epidemics affecting conclusions drawn from the model. Therefore, the greatest dengue year on record in 2019, in terms of incidence, be treated as unique in that it was probably fuelled by viral evolutionary events resulting in genotype replacements and might falsely augment the differential dengue virus burden between a higher-than-usual 6-year mean dengue incidence (inclusive of 2019) versus the comparison year of 2020. From an academic standpoint, this study would be curious to see how the model would perform if the outlier year of 2019 were removed.
Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans [VV210]; coronavirus disease 2019; dengue; disease distribution; disease incidence; disease transmission; epidemics; genotypes; human diseases; mosquito-borne diseases; pandemics; public health; viral diseases; Dengue virus; man; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Flavivirus; Flaviviridae; positive-sense ssRNA Viruses; ssRNA Viruses; RNA Viruses; viruses; Homo; Hominidae; primates; mammals; vertebrates; Chordata; animals; eukaryotes; Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus; Betacoronavirus; Coronavirinae; Coronaviridae; Nidovirales; SARS-CoV-2; viral infections
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Databases of international organizations
Database:
CAB Abstracts
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
Language:
English
Journal:
Lancet Infectious Diseases
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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