Objective To analyze the epidemic characteristics of the outbreak of dengue fever in a community of Liwan district, Guangzhou city in 2006 and estimate the effect of prevention and control. Method Field epidemiology was used to analyze all the cases, and IFA was used to detect the anti-dengue virus antibodies. The mosquito larvae density at epidemic spot was measured with BI. Result The first incidence appeared on August 21st and the last incidence appeared on September 3rd . The epidemic period was 14 days...