Leptospirosis in febrile patients with suspected diagnosis of dengue fever

OBJECTIVE: This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of leptospirosis among febrile patients with a suspicious clinical diagnosis of dengue fever in northern Peru. RESULTS: A total of 276 serum samples from patients with acute febrile illness (AFI) and suspected diagnosis for dengue vir...

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Autores principales: del Valle-Mendoza, Juana, Palomares-Reyes, Carlos, Carrillo-Ng, Hugo, Tarazona-Castro, Yordi, Kym, Sungmin, Aguilar-Luis, Miguel Angel, del Valle, Luis J., Aquino-Ortega, Ronald, Martins-Luna, Johanna, Peña-Tuesta, Isaac, Verne, Eduardo, Silva-Caso, Wilmer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8164282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34051849
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05627-3
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Sumario:OBJECTIVE: This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of leptospirosis among febrile patients with a suspicious clinical diagnosis of dengue fever in northern Peru. RESULTS: A total of 276 serum samples from patients with acute febrile illness (AFI) and suspected diagnosis for dengue virus (DENV) were analyzed. We identified an etiological agent in 121 (47.5%) patients, DENV was detected in 30.4% of the cases, leptospirosis in 11.2% and co-infection by both pathogens was observed in 5.9% of the patients. In this study the most common clinical symptoms reported by the patients were: headache 89.1%, myalgias 86.9% and arthralgias 82.9%. No differences in symptomatology was observed among the different study groups.

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