Sentence examples for classic dengue from inspiring English sources

Dengue can occasionally affect several other body systems, either in isolation or along with the classic dengue symptoms.

The result is being felt in hospitals throughout the country, and many have been bursting with patients displaying classic dengue symptoms — severe fevers, headaches, pain behind the eyes and in the joints, and abdominal cramps.

After the storm, the state government promised to take the necessary steps to prevent an outbreak of dengue and West Nile virus; however, by June 29, there had already been 187 cases of classic dengue, and 29 of hemorrhagic dengue, up from 8 cases two years before, and none the previous year.

The samples analyzed were collected prospectively from acute febrile dengue patients who evolved with different degrees of disease severity: classic dengue fever or dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) samples were compared with similar samples from other non-dengue febrile illnesses.

Dengue virus (DENV) is a serious mosquito-borne pathogen causing significant global disease burden, either as classic dengue fever (DF) or in its most severe manifestation dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF).

The relationship between age and risk for classic dengue fever has never been quantified.

Interestingly, the patient also had positive IgG and IgM to dengue virus during this episode, suggesting the individual was mounting a broad antibody response to several pathogens, possibly non-specific in nature as he had no classic dengue-like symptoms and PCR testing for dengue virus was negative.

This strategy may be adequate during an epidemic in a patient with classic severe dengue; however, in a setting of high dengue seroprevalence and lower pretest probability (undifferentiated fever, no recognized epidemic), a single positive serologic test result may more often denote past dengue, and the true cause of illness might remain unrecognized and untreated.

We identified a disease spectrum different from that of classic severe dengue reported in hospital-based studies during epidemics in urban centers (Colombo and Kandy) in Sri Lanka (20 – 22 ); the spectrum we report is similar to that described in studies of acute febrile illness elsewhere in Asia.

Rash is among the classic signs of dengue fever and its description includes different cutaneous manifestations, such as a diffuse erythema coincident with fever or a macular exanthema that is more frequent after the third day of disease [ 1, 6].

The classic presentation (called dengue fever or DF), seen most commonly in older children and adults, is an abrupt onset of a high fever, severe muscle and joint pain, and headache that may occur with nausea and vomiting.