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Volume 9, Number 4—April 2003
Research

Dengue Fever in Travelers to the Tropics, 1998 and 1999

Heidi Lindbäck*†, Johan Lindbäck†, Anders Tegnell†, Ragnhild Janzon†, Sirkka Vene†, and Karl Ekdahl†Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; †Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

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Month of disease onset in 75 Swedish patients with dengue fever or dengue hemorrhagic fever infected in Thailand, compared with the mean number of indigenous cases in Thailand per year, 1987–1991 (11).

Figure. Month of disease onset in 75 Swedish patients with dengue fever or dengue hemorrhagic fever infected in Thailand, compared with the mean number of indigenous cases in Thailand per year, 1987–1991 (11).

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