"Hospitalizations for Suspected Dengue in Puerto Rico, 1990-1995: Estimation by Capture-Recapture Methods."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 45th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, held December 1-5, 1996, in Baltimore, Maryland, "The Dengue Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), monitors dengue hospitalizations in Puerto Rico through two distinct surveillance systems. In the first, the laboratory receives blood specimens from patients with suspected dengue from a variety of healthcare facilities. In the second, infection control nurses voluntarily report on patients hospitalized for suspected dengue. We used the patient listings from these two systems and a two-sample, capture-recapture technique to estimate the...

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