This study was performed to find out whether ultrasound is an important adjunct to clinical and laboratory profile in diagnosing dengue fever or dengue haemorrhagic fever and to further determine whether ultrasound is useful in predicting the severity of the disease. Ultrasound was performed on 128 patients (2-9 years) with clinical suspicion of dengue fever. Serological tests were performed to...

BACKGROUND Dengue fever is a rapidly emerging arthropod born viral disease threatening to become an international public health problem. Approximately 500,000 people suffer from dengue haemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome with 20,000 deaths annually. Objective of this study was to look into the risk factors associated with the development of dengue fever. METHODS This cross-sectional ...

Background: Fluid resuscitation is the mainstay of treatment to counteract massive plasma leakage in dengue shock syndrome. We aimed to determine the differences in clinical outcomes and hemodynamic parameters of children with dengue shock syndrome post restrictive and liberal fluid resuscitation.  Materials and Methods: A retrospective observational study of pediatric patients who were betwee...

OBJECTIVE Dengue hemorrhagic fever is a public health problem in Mexico since 1994. With four serotypes circulating the risk of epidemic dengue hemorrhagic fever is increasing. MATERIAL AND METHODS We describe the clinical features of confirmed cases in the social security health system (IMSS) from 1995 to 2003. Clinical picture and epidemiological features were compared and a multivariate mo...

Neurologic complications associated with dengue fever are in general unusual. However, recent reports evidence more frequent neurologic alterations. In Mexico, neurologic involvement has not been reported in dengue cases. This report demonstrates the detection of dengue virus in the brain of a fatal case of dengue hemorrhagic fever. Serotype 4 was detected by immunohistochemistry and by RT-PCR ...

Dengue fever, also known as breakbone fever, is a mosquito-borne infectious tropical disease caused by the dengue virus. Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle and joint pains, and a characteristic skin rash that is similar to measles. In a small proportion of cases, the disease develops into life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever, which results in bleeding, thrombocytopenia, and leakage o...

Dengue is caused by virus is also known as break bone fever. Dengue is spread by numerous mosquito species of Aedes group. Dengue attacked mostly in tropical countries. Unfortunately dengue has also becomes dengue hemorrhagic fever, which leads bleed from under skin or nose. It can turn dengue shock disorder which causes substantial shock and bleed. There is no precise cure and no vaccine avail...

The use of vector surveillance tools for preventing dengue disease requires fine assessment of risk, in order to improve vector control activities. Nevertheless, the thresholds between vector detection and dengue fever occurrence are currently not well established. In Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais, Brazil), dengue has been endemic for several years. From January 2007 to June 2008, the dengue vec...

Figure 1. Islands of normal skin surrounded by blanching erythema on the abdomen of a 21-year-old woman who returned from travel in Sri Lanka. Diagnosis: Dengue fever. The most commonly diagnosed tropical infections that cause fever in the returned traveler are malaria, dengue, typhoid, and viral hepatitis [1]. The epidemiology may change with appropriate pretravel vaccination and use of malari...

The recent publication on autoimmune features in dengue fever by Jardim et al. is very interesting.1 Dengue fever should be suspected in patients with hematological disorders and autoimmune features in endemic regions.1 Indeed, there is no doubt that autoimmunity plays important roles in the pathogenesis of dengue. Wiwanitkit showed that the immune mimicry process is the main pathological proce...