Pérez PIM, Miranda RSC, Reyes EL, Macías MC

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ABSTRACT

A non-explanatory, descriptive and cross-sectional study to characterize the dengue outbreaks in population settlements of Santiago de Cuba municipality was carried out during the 2010. The universe was formed by 2 084 persons and 1 410 houses and locals. The information was obtained from the register of confirmed cases and of Aedes aegypti foci, of the epidemiological records and of reports from the Municipal Hygiene and Epidemiology Unit. In the series, 4 towns were between 7½ and 39 km from the city, 5 had inadequate urbanization patterns (80.2 %), the incidence rate was 42.2 per 1000 inhabitants, with primacy in the female sex and ages from18 to 49 years (69.8 %) prevailed. Environmental risks and 126 foci of Aedes aegypti were identified, with higher figures in Begoña and Sigua; 156 positive deposits were also detected in low and artificial deposits (56.4 and 26.3%, respectively).