Alfonso J. Rodríguez-Morales
1,2*, Jorge A. Sánchez-Duque
11 Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
2 Chair, Colombian Network of Research on Zika and other Arboviruses (RECOLZIKA), Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
Abstract
Understanding the impact of arbovirosis in terms of clinical commitment, disability and costs to the health system, requires a greater proportion of investigations involving multiple medical specialties, mainly in susceptible countries such as those in Latin America, in order to be prepared to control possible future epidemics of new arboviruses.