The name of the disease is said to be derived from the Portuguese word dengue which means fastidious or vain, which would describe the disturbed gait of an infected person suffering from muscle and bone pain (see also English: ‘dandy’). Dengue virus and dengue haemorrhagic fever virus are synonyms. The dengue fever virus (DENV) is a member of the genus of the 53 flaviviruses and ranks among the...

The dengue viruses are estimated to cause several hundred thousand cases of dengue fever, dengue haemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome annually. Attempts to prevent the infection focus on the development of a vaccine that would protect against all four serotypes of the dengue virus. Various biotechnological approaches are being explored, including the use of live attenuated or inactivate...

INTRODUCTION Dengue haemorrhagic fever is known for its haemorrhagic and neurologic complications. Neurologic complications are caused by three mechanism namely neurotropism, systemic complications causing encephalopathy and postinfectious immune-mediated mechanisms. However acute compressive neuropathy due to haemorrhage is not frequent and we could find no literature describing this. CASE R...

Nowadays, Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is still a significant health problem. Including in Kupang City. The existence of transovarial infection virus essential to know support the prevention be more effective and efficient. This study aimed determine infectious serotypes variability Aedes sp observational research took place nine villages City 2017. Where 20 houses each village are observed ...

Lassa fever is an acute viral zoonotic illness caused by Lassa virus, an arenavirus known to be responsible for a severe haemorrhagic fever characterised by fever, muscle aches, sore throat, nausea, vomiting and, chest and abdominal pain. The virus exhibits persistent, asymptomatic infection with profuse urinary virus excretion in the ubiquitous rodent vector, Mastomys natalensis. Lassa fever i...

A Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) outbreak emerged from 2001 to 2003 in the Middle Anatolia region of Turkey. This study describes the clinical characteristics and outcome features of CCHF patients admitted to four tertiary care hospitals in Turkey. Definitive diagnosis was based on the detection of CCHF virus-specific IgM by ELISA or of genomic segments of the CCHF virus by RT-PCR. Rel...

Dengue virus infection is one of the most important human arboviral infection (World Health Organization). The worldwide incidence of dengue fever (DF), dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) and Dengue shock syndrome (DSS) has increased dramatically in recent decades (Geneva (2005) WHO report). Globally, it has been estimated that atleast 2.5 billion people are at risk of Dengue, and approximately 97...

In the early 20th century, when it was discovered that the yellow fever virus was transmitted in its urban cycle by Aedes aegypti, measures of control were introduced leading to its disappearance. Progressive neglect of the disease, however, led to a new outbreak in 1927 during which the etio logical agent was isolated; some years later a vaccine was discovered and yellow fever disappeared agai...

Dengue virus type 3 was isolated for the first time in the country as an indigenous case from a 40 year-old woman presenting signs and symptoms of a classical dengue fever in the municipality of Nova Iguaçu, State of Rio de Janeiro. This serotype has been associated with dengue haemorrhagic epidemics and the information could be used to implement appropriate prevention and control measures. Vir...

Dengue fever is a major public health problem in India. Dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF), a more serious form of disease, occurs when a person previously infected with dengue is reinfected with a different serotype. Besides common manifestations pleural effusion, pneumonitis, haemoptysis and pulmonary haemorrhage have rarely been seen. We report a case of 30 years old male, who developed pulmona...