Frequency of the Dengue Fever in Patients with Acute Febrile Illness at Diagnostic & Research Laboratory, Hyderabad
OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of dengue fever in patients with acute febrile illness and to evaluate the clinical profile of dengue positive cases. METHODOLOGY: This cross sectional, descriptive study was conducted at Diagnostic & Research Laboratory, LUMHS Hyderabad, Samples of the pat...
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| author | Abid Hussian Chang Faheem Ahmed Memon Jai Kirshan Ameer Bux Detho Muhammad Muqeem Mangi Khalid Yousif Memon |
| author_facet | Abid Hussian Chang Faheem Ahmed Memon Jai Kirshan Ameer Bux Detho Muhammad Muqeem Mangi Khalid Yousif Memon |
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| description | OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of dengue fever in patients with acute febrile illness and to evaluate the clinical profile of dengue positive cases.
METHODOLOGY: This cross sectional, descriptive study was conducted at Diagnostic & Research Laboratory, LUMHS Hyderabad, Samples of the patients having history of acute febrile illness, within the period of June 2018 to August 2018, were confirmed for the presence of dengue IgM antibody and NS1 antigen. Dengue IgM antibody was detected by using the technique enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) while dengue NS1 antigen was detected by immune-chromatographic technique (ICT) rapid device. Clinical and hematological findings were also recorded.
RESULTS: An aggregate of 11250 cases presented with classical characteristics of Dengue fever were collected out of which majority of the cases were in there third decade of life expectancy with median age of 30 years. Seventy four percent (74%) i-e 8,325 patients were tested were found to be positive for dengue virus and remaining 2,925 (26%) appeared to be negative for dengue; from which 900 (8%) were positive for malarial parasite, 675 (6%) were diagnosed with typhoid fever and strikingly 1350 (12%) patients remained undiagnosed.
CONCLUSION: Fever along-with body ache followed by vomiting and abdominal pain were found to be the common characteristic symptoms of Dengue fever. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c700570d60b04f49b19790f0d5ea98312023-05-29T09:25:01ZengLiaquat University of Medical and Health SciencesJLUMHS1729-03412309-86272019-12-011804285289doi:10.22442/jlumhs.191840644Frequency of the Dengue Fever in Patients with Acute Febrile Illness at Diagnostic & Research Laboratory, HyderabadAbid Hussian Chang 0Faheem Ahmed Memon1Jai Kirshan2Ameer Bux Detho3Muhammad Muqeem Mangi4Khalid Yousif Memon5Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences (LUMHS), Jamshoro, Sindh-PakistanLiaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences (LUMHS), Jamshoro, Sindh-PakistanCMC/ SMBBU Larkana, Sindh-Pakistan.PUMHS Nawabshah (SBA), Sindh-Pakistan.GMMMC Sukkur, Sindh-Pakistan.Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences (LUMHS), Jamshoro, Sindh-PakistanOBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of dengue fever in patients with acute febrile illness and to evaluate the clinical profile of dengue positive cases. METHODOLOGY: This cross sectional, descriptive study was conducted at Diagnostic & Research Laboratory, LUMHS Hyderabad, Samples of the patients having history of acute febrile illness, within the period of June 2018 to August 2018, were confirmed for the presence of dengue IgM antibody and NS1 antigen. Dengue IgM antibody was detected by using the technique enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) while dengue NS1 antigen was detected by immune-chromatographic technique (ICT) rapid device. Clinical and hematological findings were also recorded. RESULTS: An aggregate of 11250 cases presented with classical characteristics of Dengue fever were collected out of which majority of the cases were in there third decade of life expectancy with median age of 30 years. Seventy four percent (74%) i-e 8,325 patients were tested were found to be positive for dengue virus and remaining 2,925 (26%) appeared to be negative for dengue; from which 900 (8%) were positive for malarial parasite, 675 (6%) were diagnosed with typhoid fever and strikingly 1350 (12%) patients remained undiagnosed. CONCLUSION: Fever along-with body ache followed by vomiting and abdominal pain were found to be the common characteristic symptoms of Dengue fever.https://www.lumhs.edu.pk/jlumhs/Vol18No04/pdfs/09.pdfkey words: dengue feveraedes aegyptiigmelisa. |
| spellingShingle | Abid Hussian Chang Faheem Ahmed Memon Jai Kirshan Ameer Bux Detho Muhammad Muqeem Mangi Khalid Yousif Memon Frequency of the Dengue Fever in Patients with Acute Febrile Illness at Diagnostic & Research Laboratory, Hyderabad JLUMHS key words: dengue fever aedes aegypti igm elisa. |
| title | Frequency of the Dengue Fever in Patients with Acute Febrile Illness at Diagnostic & Research Laboratory, Hyderabad |
| title_full | Frequency of the Dengue Fever in Patients with Acute Febrile Illness at Diagnostic & Research Laboratory, Hyderabad |
| title_fullStr | Frequency of the Dengue Fever in Patients with Acute Febrile Illness at Diagnostic & Research Laboratory, Hyderabad |
| title_full_unstemmed | Frequency of the Dengue Fever in Patients with Acute Febrile Illness at Diagnostic & Research Laboratory, Hyderabad |
| title_short | Frequency of the Dengue Fever in Patients with Acute Febrile Illness at Diagnostic & Research Laboratory, Hyderabad |
| title_sort | frequency of the dengue fever in patients with acute febrile illness at diagnostic research laboratory hyderabad |
| topic | key words: dengue fever aedes aegypti igm elisa. |
| url | https://www.lumhs.edu.pk/jlumhs/Vol18No04/pdfs/09.pdf |
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