Concurrent epidemics of dengue and COVID-19 in Peru: Which way forward?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Life Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, The Red-Green Research Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
³ Faculty of Medicine, Norbert Wiener Private University, Lima, Perú.
⁴ Department of Biotechnology, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India.
⁵ Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
⁶ Kabul University of Medical Sciences, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Mohammad Mehedi Hasan et al. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2022.

. 2022 May 23:12:100277.

doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2022.100277. eCollection 2022 Aug.

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Life Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, The Red-Green Research Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
³ Faculty of Medicine, Norbert Wiener Private University, Lima, Perú.
⁴ Department of Biotechnology, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India.
⁵ Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
⁶ Kabul University of Medical Sciences, Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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