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Luis Valdés
Publications - 16
Citations - 1584
Luis Valdés is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dengue fever & Secondary infection. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 16 publications receiving 1538 citations.
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Effect of age on outcome of secondary dengue 2 infections.
TL;DR: Age is an important variable in the outcome of secondary DEN-2 infections, and DHF/DSS case fatality and hospitalization rates are highest in young infants and the elderly, and the risk that a child will die during a secondary DEN 2 infection is nearly 15-fold higher than the risk in adults.
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Epidemiologic Studies on Dengue in Santiago de Cuba, 1997
María G. Guzmán,Gustavo Kourí,Luis Valdés,José Luis Bravo,Mayling Alvarez,Susana Vazques,Iselys Delgado,Scott B. Halstead +7 more
TL;DR: A small, isolated outbreak of d Dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome (DHF/DSS) due to dengue virus type 2 (DEN-2) was documented in Santiago de Cuba on the island of Cuba beginning in January 1997.
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Enhanced severity of secondary dengue-2 infections: death rates in 1981 and 1997 Cuban outbreaks
TL;DR: A marked increase in severity with the longer of the two intervals between an initial DEN-1 infection and a secondary DEN-2 infection is found, which may be due to subtle shifts in causative dengue strains or to changes with the passage of time in the circulating population of human d Dengue antibodies.
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Reemergence of dengue in Cuba: A 1997 epidemic in Santiago de Cuba.
Gustavo Kourí,María G. Guzmán,Luis Valdés,Carbonel I,del Rosario D,Susana Vázquez,Laferté J,Jorge Lirola Delgado,María V. Cabrera +8 more
TL;DR: After 15 years of absence, dengue reemerged in the municipality of Santiago de Cuba because of increasing migration to the area by people from disease-endemic regions, a high level of vector infestation, and the breakdown of eradication measures.
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Fatal dengue hemorrhagic fever in Cuba, 1997
María G. Guzmán,Mayling Alvarez,Rosmari Rodríguez,Delfina Rosario,Susana Vázquez,Luis Valdés,María V. Cabrera,Gustavo Kourí +7 more
TL;DR: The results obtained demonstrate that adults with a primary dengue infection are at risk of developing the severe disease (DHF) if they are infected with a different serotype.