First documented evidence of dengue and malaria co-infection in children attending two health centers in Yaoundé, Cameroon

To date, only a few cases of malaria and dengue co-infections have been reported around the world. We describe for the first time in Cameroon, concurrent infections among children (2 to 10 years) in two health centers of Yaoundé. The two dengue strains isolated in Cameroon clustered with the Asian I...

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Autores principales: Monamele, Gwladys Chavely, Demanou, Maurice
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2018
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Letter to the Editors
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30100980
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2018.29.227.15316
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description To date, only a few cases of malaria and dengue co-infections have been reported around the world. We describe for the first time in Cameroon, concurrent infections among children (2 to 10 years) in two health centers of Yaoundé. The two dengue strains isolated in Cameroon clustered with the Asian II genotype. Although acute concurrent infections were benign, special attention should be given to malaria and dengue co-infection in order to prevent possible severe cases.
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spelling pubmed-60809742018-08-10 First documented evidence of dengue and malaria co-infection in children attending two health centers in Yaoundé, Cameroon Monamele, Gwladys Chavely Demanou, Maurice Pan Afr Med J Letter to the Editors To date, only a few cases of malaria and dengue co-infections have been reported around the world. We describe for the first time in Cameroon, concurrent infections among children (2 to 10 years) in two health centers of Yaoundé. The two dengue strains isolated in Cameroon clustered with the Asian II genotype. Although acute concurrent infections were benign, special attention should be given to malaria and dengue co-infection in order to prevent possible severe cases. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2018-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6080974/ /pubmed/30100980 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2018.29.227.15316 Text en © Gwladys Chavely Monamele et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr First documented evidence of dengue and malaria co-infection in children attending two health centers in Yaoundé, Cameroon
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title_short First documented evidence of dengue and malaria co-infection in children attending two health centers in Yaoundé, Cameroon
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080974/
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