Spatial analysis of dengue clusters at department, municipality and local scales in the southwest of Colombia, 2014-2019

• Published in: Tropical medicine and infectious disease Vol. 8; no. 5; pp. 1 - 29
• Main Authors: Marceló-Díaz, Catalina, Lesmes, María Camila, Santamaría, Erika, Salamanca, José Alejandro, Fuya, Patricia, Cadena, Horacio, Muñoz-Laiton, Paola, Morales, Carlos Andrés
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI 02.05.2023; MDPI AG
• Subjects: Aedes; Aedes aegypti; Analysis; Arbovirus infections; Climate; Cluster analysis; Contingency planning; Dengue; Dengue fever; Disease; Epidemics; Epidemiology; Forests; Getis-Ord Gi; Laboratories; Mosquitoes as carriers of disease; Poisson regression; Public health; pupae index; Spatial analysis; spatio-temporal analysis; Surveillance; Transmission; Vectors (Biology); Colombia; Aedes aegypti; pupae index; Getis-Ord Gi; Poisson regression; spatio-temporal analysis

Dengue is an arbovirus transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Aedes and is one of the 15 main public health problems in the world, including Colombia. Where limited financial resources create a problem for management, there is a need for the department to prioritize target areas for public health im...