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. 2020 Aug 20;14(8):e0008349.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008349. eCollection 2020 Aug.

Dengue in a crowded megacity: Lessons learnt from 2019 outbreak in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mohammad Sorowar Hossain  1   2 , Mahbubul H Siddiqee  1   3 , Umme Ruman Siddiqi  1   4 , Enayetur Raheem  1 , Rokeya Akter  1   5 , Wenbiao Hu  5
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Dengue in a crowded megacity: Lessons learnt from 2019 outbreak in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mohammad Sorowar Hossain et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. .
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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Figures

Fig 1
Fig 1. Daily time series distribution of dengue during the outbreak, 2019.
Red line shows the Eid day during the outbreak.
Fig 2
Fig 2. Spatial variation of differences of weekly dengue incidence between post-Eid and pre-Eid week in different districts of Bangladesh.
Positive and negative values in the legend represent increase and decrease of weekly dengue incidence, respectively. To calculate weekly incidence, total number of dengue cases for the week for each district was divided by the total population of the respective district and multiplied by 100,000.
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