bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/657031; this version posted May 31, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 1 Spatial and epidemiologic features of dengue in Sabah, 2 Malaysia 3 4 Amanda Murphy1,2*, Giri Shan Rajahram3,4, Jenarun Jilip5, Marilyn Maluda5, Timothy 5 William4,6, Wenbiao Hu7, Simon Reid8, Gregor J. Devine1^, Francesca D. Frentiu2^. 6 7 8 9 1 Mosquito Control Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, 10 Australia 11 2 School of Biomedical Sciences, and Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation, 12 Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia 13 3 Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Ministry of Health Malaysia, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia 14 4 Infectious Disease Society of Kota Kinabalu-Menzies School of Health Research Clinical 15 Research Unit, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia 16 5 Sabah Department of Health, Ministry of Health Malaysia, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia 17 6 Gleneagles Kota Kinabalu Hospital Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia 18 7 School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 19 Australia 20 8 School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 21 22 23 * Corresponding author 24 E-mail:
[email protected] 25 26 27 ^ These authors contributed equally to this work 28 29 30 Keywords: dengue, rural, Sabah, Aedes albopictus, Borneo, South East Asia 31 32 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/657031; this version posted May 31, 2019.