A Rare Presentation of Coinfection: Dengue Virus and Hepatitis A Virus

Dengue fever caused by dengue virus is a common tropical infection transmitted by the mosquitos Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Four strains of the genus flavivirus is responsible for the epidemics of varying severity. Hepatitis A caused by hepatitis A virus is spread by faecal-oral route. The c...

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Autores principales: Ranathunga, I., Kannangara, L. S., Bandara, K. A. S, Gunatilake, S. B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6721507/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31531251
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/9782892
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author Ranathunga, I.
Kannangara, L. S.
Bandara, K. A. S
Gunatilake, S. B.
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description Dengue fever caused by dengue virus is a common tropical infection transmitted by the mosquitos Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Four strains of the genus flavivirus is responsible for the epidemics of varying severity. Hepatitis A caused by hepatitis A virus is spread by faecal-oral route. The culprit virus is a hepatovirus. Coinfection with dengue virus and hepatitis A virus is rare and is a diagnostic as well as management challenge to the medical professional. We report a patient who presented to us with dengue virus and hepatitis A virus coinfection.
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spelling pubmed-67215072019-09-17 A Rare Presentation of Coinfection: Dengue Virus and Hepatitis A Virus Ranathunga, I. Kannangara, L. S. Bandara, K. A. S Gunatilake, S. B. Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Dengue fever caused by dengue virus is a common tropical infection transmitted by the mosquitos Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Four strains of the genus flavivirus is responsible for the epidemics of varying severity. Hepatitis A caused by hepatitis A virus is spread by faecal-oral route. The culprit virus is a hepatovirus. Coinfection with dengue virus and hepatitis A virus is rare and is a diagnostic as well as management challenge to the medical professional. We report a patient who presented to us with dengue virus and hepatitis A virus coinfection. Hindawi 2019-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6721507/ /pubmed/31531251 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/9782892 Text en Copyright © 2019 I. Ranathunga et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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