Dengue Virus Type 3, Brazil, 2002

During the summer of 2002, Rio de Janeiro had a large epidemic of dengue fever; 288,245 cases were reported. A subset of 1,831 dengue hemorrhagic fever cases occurred. In this study, performed in the first half of 2002, samples from 1,559 patients with suspected cases of dengue infection were analyz...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Nogueira, Rita Maria Ribeiro, Schatzmayr, Hermann Gonçalves, Bispo de Filippis, Ana Maria, Barreto dos Santos, Flávia, Venâncio da Cunha, Rivaldo, Coelho, Janice Oliveira, José de Souza, Luiz, Guimarães, Flávia Ramos, Machado de Araújo, Eliane Saraiva, De Simone, Thatiane Santos, Baran, Meri, Teixeira, Gualberto, Miagostovich, Marize Pereira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005
Materias:
Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3310608/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16229765
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1109.041043
Descripción
Sumario:During the summer of 2002, Rio de Janeiro had a large epidemic of dengue fever; 288,245 cases were reported. A subset of 1,831 dengue hemorrhagic fever cases occurred. In this study, performed in the first half of 2002, samples from 1,559 patients with suspected cases of dengue infection were analyzed. From this total, 1,497 were obtained from patients with nonfatal cases, and 62 were obtained from patients with fatal cases. By the use of different methods, 831 (53.3%) cases, including 40 fatal cases, were confirmed as dengue infection. When virus identification was successful, dengue virus type 3 (DENV-3) was obtained in 99% of cases. Neurologic involvement was shown in 1 patient with encephalitis, confirmed by the detection of DENV-3 RNA in the cerebrospinal fluid. This explosive epidemic of DENV-3 was the most severe dengue epidemic reported in Brazil since dengue viruses were introduced in 1986.

Ejemplares similares