TY - JOUR AU - Hossain, M. Anowar AU - Khatun, Mahmuda AU - Arjumand, Farzana AU - Nisaluk, Ananda AU - Breiman, Robert F. T1 - Serologic Evidence of Dengue Infection before Onset of Epidemic, Bangladesh T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2003 VL - 9 IS - 11 SP - 1411 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Dengue fever emerged in Bangladesh in 2000. We tested 225 serum and plasma samples from febrile patients and 184 blood donors in 1996 and 1997 for dengue antibodies; 55 (24.4%) febrile patients had dengue antibodies (65.5% with secondary infection pattern), compared with one (0.54%) donor (p < 0.001), suggesting that dengue transmission was ongoing well before 1996. KW - seroprevalence KW - dengue KW - typhoid KW - Widal KW - Japanese encephalitis KW - MAC ELISA KW - Bangladesh DO - 10.3201/eid0911.030117 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/9/11/03-0117_article ER - End of Reference