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Chikungunya – an emerging infection in Bangladesh: a case series
INTRODUCTION: Chikungunya is an arthropod-borne virus endemic to Africa, Southeast Asia and India that causes acute febrile polyarthralgia and arthritis. In this short case series, we discuss six Bangladeshi patients with chikungunya fever. Though Bangladesh is in endemic zone, it is not common here...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3938320/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24559283 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-8-67 |
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author | Hassan, Rashedul Rahman, Md Mujibur Moniruzzaman, Md Rahim, Abdur Barua, Satyajit Biswas, Rajib Biswas, Pijous Mowla, Syed Ghulam Mogni Chowdhury, MA Jalil |
author_facet | Hassan, Rashedul Rahman, Md Mujibur Moniruzzaman, Md Rahim, Abdur Barua, Satyajit Biswas, Rajib Biswas, Pijous Mowla, Syed Ghulam Mogni Chowdhury, MA Jalil |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Chikungunya is an arthropod-borne virus endemic to Africa, Southeast Asia and India that causes acute febrile polyarthralgia and arthritis. In this short case series, we discuss six Bangladeshi patients with chikungunya fever. Though Bangladesh is in endemic zone, it is not common here, hence it demands attention for proper diagnosis and management. CASE PRESENTATION: The six cases of chikungunya we report occurred in native Bangladeshi women with ages ranging from 20 to 50 years and all having a middle class family background. Three women had severe incapacitating arthralgia as well as a maculo-papular rash and a high fever. The other three had a high grade fever and arthralgia only, but no rash. They were tested for chikungunya immunoglobulin M antibody and found to be positive in all cases. They were treated symptomatically with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and found responsive in most cases. CONCLUSION: From this case series, it is evident that chikungunya is not that uncommon in Bangladesh. But the concomitant presence of other arthropod-borne infections with similar courses of illness makes most physicians less aware of this infection. An awareness and clinical knowledge are necessary to diagnose chikungunya infection properly. |
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spelling | pubmed-39383202014-03-01 Chikungunya – an emerging infection in Bangladesh: a case series Hassan, Rashedul Rahman, Md Mujibur Moniruzzaman, Md Rahim, Abdur Barua, Satyajit Biswas, Rajib Biswas, Pijous Mowla, Syed Ghulam Mogni Chowdhury, MA Jalil J Med Case Rep Case Report INTRODUCTION: Chikungunya is an arthropod-borne virus endemic to Africa, Southeast Asia and India that causes acute febrile polyarthralgia and arthritis. In this short case series, we discuss six Bangladeshi patients with chikungunya fever. Though Bangladesh is in endemic zone, it is not common here, hence it demands attention for proper diagnosis and management. CASE PRESENTATION: The six cases of chikungunya we report occurred in native Bangladeshi women with ages ranging from 20 to 50 years and all having a middle class family background. Three women had severe incapacitating arthralgia as well as a maculo-papular rash and a high fever. The other three had a high grade fever and arthralgia only, but no rash. They were tested for chikungunya immunoglobulin M antibody and found to be positive in all cases. They were treated symptomatically with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and found responsive in most cases. CONCLUSION: From this case series, it is evident that chikungunya is not that uncommon in Bangladesh. But the concomitant presence of other arthropod-borne infections with similar courses of illness makes most physicians less aware of this infection. An awareness and clinical knowledge are necessary to diagnose chikungunya infection properly. BioMed Central 2014-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3938320/ /pubmed/24559283 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-8-67 Text en Copyright © 2014 Hassan et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Hassan, Rashedul Rahman, Md Mujibur Moniruzzaman, Md Rahim, Abdur Barua, Satyajit Biswas, Rajib Biswas, Pijous Mowla, Syed Ghulam Mogni Chowdhury, MA Jalil Chikungunya – an emerging infection in Bangladesh: a case series |
title | Chikungunya – an emerging infection in Bangladesh: a case series |
title_full | Chikungunya – an emerging infection in Bangladesh: a case series |
title_fullStr | Chikungunya – an emerging infection in Bangladesh: a case series |
title_full_unstemmed | Chikungunya – an emerging infection in Bangladesh: a case series |
title_short | Chikungunya – an emerging infection in Bangladesh: a case series |
title_sort | chikungunya – an emerging infection in bangladesh: a case series |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3938320/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24559283 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-8-67 |
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