complication of dengue fever

DHFDSS is characterized by thrombocytopenia with the resultant hemorrhagic manifestations. Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection.

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While DF is a simple self-limiting febrile illness DHF is a severe and potentially life-threatening condition.

. Initial symptoms are common to all patients but the clinical manifestations of the severe forms rapidly evolve. The positive-sense single-stranded RNA is around 10862 nucleotides long and has a. INTRODUCTION Dengue fever also known as breakbone fever is an infectious tropical disease caused by the dengue virus 3.

Dengue Fever Read More. Dengue fever DF and DHFDSS. Severe dengue occurs.

EPIDEMIOLOGY The mortality is 15 without treatment less than 1 with adequate treatment. No specific antiviral agents exist for dengue. Shock syndrome is a dangerous complication of dengue infection and is associated with high mortality.

The infection causes flu-like illness and occasionally develops into a potentially lethal complication called severe dengue. This complication of severe dengue fever causes abdominal pain hemorrhage bleeding and circulatory collapse shock. IJID is a peer-reviewed open access journal and publishes original clinical and laboratory-based research together with reports of clinical trials reviews and some case reports dealing with the epidemiology clinical diagnosis treatment.

All dengue serotypes are capable of causing disease with a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations ranging from an undifferentiated fever in a mild clinical form classically known as dengue fever DF to the severe clinical and potentially fatal DHFDSS. NewsDesk bactiman63 Officials with the Department of Health Eastern Visayas are reporting 1856 dengue fever cases since the beginning of the year an increase of 545 percent compared to the same. About half of the worlds population is.

DHF is also called Philippine Thai or Southeast Asian hemorrhagic fever or dengue shock. Patients should be advised to stay well hydrated and to avoid aspirin acetylsalicylic acid aspirin-containing drugs and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen because of their anticoagulant properties. The global incidence of dengue has grown dramatically in recent decades.

In addition there is increased vascular permeability resulting in. Dengue is endemic in more. Symptomatic dengue results in two defined syndromes.

In a follow-up on the dengue fever situation in the Philippines. The International Journal of Infectious Diseases IJID is published monthly by the International Society for Infectious Diseases. Dacryocytitis- Staphylococcus aureus Staphylococcus epidermidis Streptococcus pneumoniae Dandy fever- Break Bone fever- Dengue virus Flaviviridae Darlings Disease- cave disease- spelunkers disease- Histoplasmosis- Histoplasma capsulatum dimorphic fungus Deer fly fever tularemia lemming fever rabbit fever OHara disease Francis disease Francisella tularensis.

Yellow fever is caused by yellow fever virus an enveloped RNA virus 4050 nm in width the type species and namesake of the family Flaviviridae. Dengue hemorrhagic fever DHF or dengue hemorrhagic fever is a specific syndrome that tends to affect children under 10 years of age. It was the first illness shown to be transmissible by filtered human serum and transmitted by mosquitoes by American doctor Walter Reed around 1900.

Fever should be controlled with acetaminophen and tepid. DENGUE FEVER BY LT KALAIVANI R 2. However severe disease carries a mortality of 26.

Supportive care is advised.

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