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International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences
Concurrent dengue and typhoid infection: study from a tertiary care centre in Muzaffarnagar, India
Sapna Chauhan
Background: Acute febrile illness is a common presenting complaint during the rainy season. Rains predispose to both water and vector borne diseases. Co-infection of dengue with malaria, leptospirosis, typhoid, scrub typhus and other arboviral diseases can occur in endemic areas. Such dual infections are difficult to diagnose and create a diagnostic dilemma for the treating physician. Here in this study authors attempt to find out rates of concurrent dengue and typhoid infection.Methods: This retrospective study was done between August to November 2017. 403 patients presenting with acute febrile illness were studied. Diagnosis of dengue was done by rapid card test detecting NS1 antigen, IgM and IgG antibodies. Serodiagnosis of Salmonella infection was done by tube Widal test.Results: : Out of 403 febrile sera samples tested 154 (38.2%) were positive for dengue (either NS1 antigen or IgM antibodies or both), 71(17.6%) were positive for Widal test O and H titres ≥1:160) and 28 (6.9%) ...
Journal of Nepal Medical Association
Typhoid Fever among Patients Diagnosed with Dengue in a Tertiary Care Centre: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
Dr. Arun Mahato
Introduction: Dengue and typhoid fever are different entities with overlapping signs and symptoms which are indistinguishable and there have been few reports of co-infections from endemic areas. The resemblance of symptoms makes accurate clinical diagnosis and treatment difficult. Both are major health problems mainly during monsoon and co-infection, if not timely diagnosed and treated can be fatal. The aim of this study was to find out the prevalence of typhoid fever among patients diagnosed with dengue at a tertiary care centre. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was done among patients of age >15 years with dengue fever attending the medicine outpatient department in a tertiary care centre from 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022. Ethical approval was taken from the Institutional Review Committee (Reference number: 466/2020). Convenience sampling was used. Patients with other risk factors for febrile illness were excluded from the study. Point estimate and 90% Confidence Int...
Co-infection of Dengue, Scrub typhus and Typhoid during Dengue outbreak in Nepal, 2022: A case report
Puja Shrestha
In midst of recent dengue outbreak in Nepal, 2022, the risk of co-infection increases and may lead to fatal outcomes if the diagnosis of multiple infections is delayed. Thus, all available diagnostic approaches must be taken to decrease the burden of illness and lessen mortality.
Evidence of Overlapping Infections of Dengue, Malaria and Typhoid in Febrile Patients Attending a Tertiary Health Facility in Uyo, South-South Nigeria
Inyang Atting
Background: Malaria, typhoid, and dengue have become significant diseases worldwide, especially in Africa due to their increasing endemicity. Similarities in signs and symptoms in infected individuals make it difficult for healthcare providers to clinically diagnose these diseases in patients presenting with feverish conditions in the clinics. Aim: This study aimed to determine the prevalence of malaria, typhoid/paratyphoid and dengue in patients with febrile conditions attending Methodology: A total of 145 febrile patients were investigated for malaria, typhoid/paratyphoid and dengue using thick Giemsa staining technique, microtitre plate (single antibody titre) quantitative assay (Antibody titre ≥160), and dengue NS1 Ag/IgM/IgG serology, respectively. Results: Of the 145 patients, 51(35.2%), 10(7.0%) and 7(4.8%) had malaria, typhoid/paratyphoid and dengue, respectively. A total of 20(37.0%) males and 31(34.1%) females had malaria, while 3(2.1%) males and 7(4.8%) females had typhoid. Dengue viral markers were detected in 1(1.9%) male and 3(3.2%) females. The age range of patients in this study was <1-70 years, with mean (±SD) age of 34.1±12.7 years. The highest infected age groups were 61-70 yr, 3(60.0%) for malaria; 41-50 yrs, 3(23.1%) each for typhoid/paratyphoid and dengue, respectively. A significant association existed between age of patients and malaria and not with typhoid and dengue diseases. A total of 2(21.4%) patients had malaria/typhoid/paratyphoid co-infection, while 1(10.7%) had malaria/dengue co-infection. Dengue patients with active disease tested positive with NS1 antigen, 4(2.8%) and specific-IgM antibodies, 2(1.4%). Conclusion: This study concludes that dengue virus as well as malaria parasite and S. Typhi/ S. paratyphi are among the aetiologic microbial agents of fever in this locality. Hence, differential diagnosis of patients with feverish conditions should not only be limited to malaria and typhoid as is always the case in our hospitals. These findings have raised serious public health concern as outbreaks of dengue may occur unnoticed if suspicion index is not raised among health care practitioners.
Dengue Virus Infection In A Course Of Typhoid Fever
2018 •
Aleksander Ryczkowski
Bangladesh Journal of Medicine
Dengue coinfection in a case of enteric fever: a diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma
2018 •
Quazi Tarikul Islam
Presence of coinfection may make the otherwise straightforward presentation, diagnosis and management of the either disease complicated. Dengue and enteric fever coinfection is uncommon, though as a single disease both are common in tropical countries. Here, coinfection by dengue and enteric fever has been described in a 14-year-old boy residing in the tropic. Diagnosis of dengue was suggested by positive serological tests, and Salmonella paratyphi A was isolated by blood culture. Presence of enteric fever presumably protracted the course of illness by dengue fever. The patient was managed successfully by intravenous ceftriaxone, along with supportive care. So, the physicians practicing in the endemic region should have high degree of suspicion while dealing with the febrile patients in clinical practice.Bangladesh J Medicine Jul 2017; 28(2) : 100-103
Dengue Co-infections-An Emerging Entity during the Outbreak
Prasan K Panda
International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health
Serological co-infection of dengue and COVID-19: case series in Bangladesh
Morshed Nasir
Parallel symptoms and laboratory findings between dengue and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pretense a diagnostic contest in some dengue-endemic countries in Asia. In this study, we described ten cases of suspected COVID-19-dengue co-infection in a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh. Serological data showed that patients with positive results for dengue virus (DENV) NS1 antigen and anti-dengue IgG and IgM were also reactive to COVID-19 rapid antibody tests, suggesting dengue with COVID-19 coinfection. The present study indicated a public health concern regarding COVID-19 and dengue detection in Bangladesh as well as in other dengue-endemic countries and it was important for these nations to manage both pathogens concurrently.
Bangladesh Medical Research Council Bulletin
Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever and Acute Hepatitis: A Case Report
2021 •
Dr. Arifa Akram
Drug Discoveries & Therapeutics
Management of dengue with co-infections: an updated narrative review
2021 •
vishal kumar vishwakarma
