title: Community Involvement in Dengue Outbreak Control: An Integrated Rigorous Intervention Strategy.
abstract: An explosive outbreak of dengue fever occurred in Guangdong Province, China in 2014. A community-based integrated intervention was applied to control this outbreak in the capital city Guangzhou, where dengue epidemic was mainly caused by imported cases.
  
  
  
  We used a time series generalized additive model based on meteorological factors to assess the effectiveness of this intervention. The results showed that there was significant reduction in mosquito density following the intervention, and there was a 70.47% (95% confidence interval: 66.07%, 74.88%) reduction in the reported dengue cases compared with the predicted cases after 12 days since the beginning of the intervention, we estimated that a total of 23,302 dengue cases were prevented.
  
  
  
  This study suggests that an integrated dengue intervention program has significant effects to control a dengue outbreak in areas where dengue epidemic was mainly caused by imported dengue cases.
authors.affiliation: Guangdong Provincial Institute of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Hualiang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Guangdong Provincial Institute of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Tie
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Song
authors.affiliation: Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Lifeng
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Guangdong Provincial Institute of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Jianpeng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.affiliation: Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Jinyan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Jianfeng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Haojie
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.|Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
authors.forename: Wenbiao
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Aiping
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.affiliation: Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Zhiqiang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.affiliation: Guangdong Provincial Institute of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Wenjun
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Yonghui
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002681:China; D003256:Community Participation; D009033:Culicidae / Q000821:virology; D003715:Dengue / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission / Q000821:virology; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D058872:Epidemics / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans