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ReviewInternational journal of health sciences

Overview of dengue and Zika virus similarity, what can we learn from the Saudi experience with dengue fever?

Sulaiman A Alshammari, Yousif S Alamri, Fatimah S Rabhan, Aljoharah A Alabdullah, Noura A Alsanie, Fatma A Almarshad, Amal N Alhaqbani

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Review in International journal of health sciences. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Host immune response against DENV and ZIKV infections.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022
    Review
  3. Article
  4. "Seven-Plus-One Model": A Move Toward Dengue Free Community.Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Sulaiman A AlshammariDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, Research Chair of Health Education and Health Promotion, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh Saudi Arabia.
Yousif S AlamriDepartment of National Drug and Poison Information Center, Saudi Food and Drug Authority, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Fatimah S RabhanDepartment of Epidemiology, PrincessNourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Aljoharah A AlabdullahDepartment of Epidemiology, PrincessNourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Noura A AlsanieDepartment of Epidemiology, PrincessNourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Fatma A AlmarshadDepartment of Epidemiology, PrincessNourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Amal N AlhaqbaniDepartment of Epidemiology, PrincessNourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is high public health alert in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia concerning Zika virus infection. So far, there is no reported outbreak. So are we at risk of this disease? Reviewing the literature of recent outbreaks of other infectious diseases in Saudi Arabia may clarify the situation. It is evident that there is some similarity between Zika and dengue regarding vector (

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AedesDengueSaudi ArabiaZika

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PMCPMC5870307

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