| public health responses to and challenges for the control of dengue transmission in high-income countries: four case studies. | dengue has a negative impact in low- and lower middle-income countries, but also affects upper middle- and high-income countries. despite the efforts at controlling this disease, it is unclear why dengue remains an issue in affluent countries. a better understanding of dengue epidemiology and its burden, and those of chikungunya virus and zika virus which share vectors with dengue, is required to prevent the emergence of these diseases in high-income countries in the future. the purpose of this ... | 2016 | 27643596 |
| the critical role of early dengue surveillance and limitations of clinical reporting - implications for non-endemic countries. | the increasing dengue burden and epidemic severity worldwide have highlighted the need to improve surveillance. in non-endemic areas such as taiwan, where outbreaks start mostly with imported cases from southeast asia, a closer examination of surveillance dynamics to detect cases early is necessary. to evaluate problems with dengue surveillance and investigate the involvement of different factors at various epidemic stages, we investigated 632 laboratory-confirmed indigenous dengue cases in kaoh ... | 2016 | 27501302 |
| zika virus infection in taiwan: an expectation on possible asymptomatic cases and local transmission. | | 2016 | 27729201 |
| taiwan's travel and border health measures in response to zika. | zika virus has recently emerged as a worldwide public health concern. travel and border health measures stand as one of the main strategies and frontline defenses in responding to international epidemics. as of october 31, 2016, taiwan has reported 13 imported cases, 5 of which were detected through routine entry screening and active monitoring at international airports. this article shares taiwan's disease surveillance activities at designated points of entry and travel and border health measur ... | 2017 | 28418744 |
| real-time surveillance of infectious diseases: taiwan's experience. | integration of multiple surveillance systems advances early warning and supports better decision making during infectious disease events. taiwan has a comprehensive network of laboratory, epidemiologic, and early warning surveillance systems with nationwide representation. hospitals and clinical laboratories have deployed automatic reporting mechanisms since 2014 and have effectively improved timeliness of infectious disease and laboratory data reporting. in june 2016, the capacity of real-time ... | 2017 | 28418738 |
| how can we deal with zika virus infection? | | 2016 | 27013108 |
| a new reportable disease is born: taiwan centers for disease control's response to emerging zika virus infection. | zika virus infection, usually a mild disease transmitted through the bite of aedes mosquitos, has been reported to be possibly associated with microcephaly and neurologic complications. taiwan's first imported case of zika virus infection was found through fever screening at airport entry in january 2016. no virus was isolated from patient's blood taken during acute illness; however, pcr products showed that the virus was of asian lineage closely related to virus from cambodia. to prevent zika v ... | 2016 | 27013110 |
| imported thai patient with zika virus to taiwan: what else should be known and discussed? | | 2016 | 27364879 |
| identifying the main mosquito species in the taiwan strait using dna barcoding. | mosquitoes can transmit many types of viruses such west nile virus and zika virus and are responsible for virus-causing diseases including malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, lymphatic filariasis, and japanese b encephalitis. on january 19, 2016, the first case of zika virus infection was identified in taiwan, which presents the need for studying the mosquito species in the taiwan strait and evaluating the risk of the outbreak of this infection. in this study, we collected a total of 144 specim ... | 2017 | 28215143 |