A fatal hepatitis A virus with dengue fever co-infection

We report the first pediatric fatal case of Hepatitis A virus (HAV) and dengue virus (DENV) co-infection. A 4-year-old boy who had a partial recovery of HAV infection but with subsequent DENV infection; the condition was complicated by acute fulminant hepatic failure, and death. The risk of DENV co-...

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Autor principal: Gohal, Gassem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6441740/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30993077
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00522
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description We report the first pediatric fatal case of Hepatitis A virus (HAV) and dengue virus (DENV) co-infection. A 4-year-old boy who had a partial recovery of HAV infection but with subsequent DENV infection; the condition was complicated by acute fulminant hepatic failure, and death. The risk of DENV co-infection should be considered as cause of acute fulminant hepatic failure in pre-existing Hepatitis A infection.
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spelling pubmed-64417402019-04-16 A fatal hepatitis A virus with dengue fever co-infection Gohal, Gassem IDCases Article We report the first pediatric fatal case of Hepatitis A virus (HAV) and dengue virus (DENV) co-infection. A 4-year-old boy who had a partial recovery of HAV infection but with subsequent DENV infection; the condition was complicated by acute fulminant hepatic failure, and death. The risk of DENV co-infection should be considered as cause of acute fulminant hepatic failure in pre-existing Hepatitis A infection. Elsevier 2019-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6441740/ /pubmed/30993077 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00522 Text en © 2019 The Author http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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