Dengue guidelines, for diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control

A joint publication of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR)

Overview

Since the second edition of Dengue haemorrhagic fever: diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control was published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1997, the magnitude of the dengue problem has increased dramatically and has extended geographically to many previously unaffected areas. It was then, and remains today, the most important arthropod-borne viral disease of humans.

Activities undertaken by WHO regarding dengue are most recently guided at the global policy level by World Health Assembly resolution WHA55.17 (adopted by the Fifty-fifth World Health Assembly in 2002) and at the regional level by resolution CE140.R17 of the Pan American Sanitary Conference (2007), resolution WPR/RC59.R6 of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific (2008) and resolution SEA/RC61/R5 of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia (2008)

This new edition has been produced to make widely available to health practitioners, laboratory personnel, those involved in vector control and other public health officials, a concise source of information of worldwide relevance on dengue. The guidelines provide updated practical information on the clinical management and delivery of clinical services; vector management and delivery of vector control services; laboratory diagnosis and diagnostic tests; and surveillance, emergency preparedness and response. Looking ahead, some indications of new and promising avenues of research are also described. Additional and more detailed specific guidance on the various specialist areas related to dengue are available from other sources in WHO and elsewhere, some of which are cited in the references.


WHO Team
Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD), Emergency Preparedness (WPE)
Editors
WHO Department of control of neglected tropical diseases and TDR
Number of pages
157
Reference numbers
ISBN: 978 92 4 154787 1
WHO Reference Number: WHO/HTM/NTD/DEN/2009.1
Copyright
World Health Organization - All rights reserved.