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Dynamics of dengue and SARS-COV-2 co-infection in an endemic area of Colombia
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, millions of people have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 around the world. An area of epidemiological relevance is Latin America, tropical regions, due to the distribution of endemic diseases such as chikungunya, dengue (DENV), malaria, Zika virus, where febrile disease abo...
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author | Acosta-Pérez, Tomás Rodríguez-Yánez, Tomás Almanza-Hurtado, Amilkar Martínez-Ávila, María Cristina Dueñas-Castell, Carmelo |
author_facet | Acosta-Pérez, Tomás Rodríguez-Yánez, Tomás Almanza-Hurtado, Amilkar Martínez-Ávila, María Cristina Dueñas-Castell, Carmelo |
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description | Since the COVID-19 outbreak, millions of people have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 around the world. An area of epidemiological relevance is Latin America, tropical regions, due to the distribution of endemic diseases such as chikungunya, dengue (DENV), malaria, Zika virus, where febrile disease abounds. The early signs and symptoms of DENV and COVID-19 could be similar, making it a risk that patients may be wrongly diagnosed early during the disease. The problem increases since COVID-19 infection can lead to false positives in DENV screening tests. We present two cases of acute undifferentiated febrile syndrome that were diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 and DENV co-infection, confirmed by ELISA and RT-PCR for both viral pathogens. The occurrence of simultaneous or overlapped infections can alter the usual clinical course, severity, or outcome of each infection. Therefore, epidemiological surveillance and intensified preparation for those scenarios must be considered, as well as further studies should be done to address cases of co-infection promptly to avoid major complications and fatal outcomes during the current pandemic. Other endemic tropical diseases should not be neglected. |
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spelling | pubmed-91073422022-05-16 Dynamics of dengue and SARS-COV-2 co-infection in an endemic area of Colombia Acosta-Pérez, Tomás Rodríguez-Yánez, Tomás Almanza-Hurtado, Amilkar Martínez-Ávila, María Cristina Dueñas-Castell, Carmelo Trop Dis Travel Med Vaccines Case Report Since the COVID-19 outbreak, millions of people have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 around the world. An area of epidemiological relevance is Latin America, tropical regions, due to the distribution of endemic diseases such as chikungunya, dengue (DENV), malaria, Zika virus, where febrile disease abounds. The early signs and symptoms of DENV and COVID-19 could be similar, making it a risk that patients may be wrongly diagnosed early during the disease. The problem increases since COVID-19 infection can lead to false positives in DENV screening tests. We present two cases of acute undifferentiated febrile syndrome that were diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 and DENV co-infection, confirmed by ELISA and RT-PCR for both viral pathogens. The occurrence of simultaneous or overlapped infections can alter the usual clinical course, severity, or outcome of each infection. Therefore, epidemiological surveillance and intensified preparation for those scenarios must be considered, as well as further studies should be done to address cases of co-infection promptly to avoid major complications and fatal outcomes during the current pandemic. Other endemic tropical diseases should not be neglected. BioMed Central 2022-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9107342/ /pubmed/35568905 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40794-022-00169-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Acosta-Pérez, Tomás Rodríguez-Yánez, Tomás Almanza-Hurtado, Amilkar Martínez-Ávila, María Cristina Dueñas-Castell, Carmelo Dynamics of dengue and SARS-COV-2 co-infection in an endemic area of Colombia |
title | Dynamics of dengue and SARS-COV-2 co-infection in an endemic area of Colombia |
title_full | Dynamics of dengue and SARS-COV-2 co-infection in an endemic area of Colombia |
title_fullStr | Dynamics of dengue and SARS-COV-2 co-infection in an endemic area of Colombia |
title_full_unstemmed | Dynamics of dengue and SARS-COV-2 co-infection in an endemic area of Colombia |
title_short | Dynamics of dengue and SARS-COV-2 co-infection in an endemic area of Colombia |
title_sort | dynamics of dengue and sars-cov-2 co-infection in an endemic area of colombia |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9107342/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35568905 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40794-022-00169-3 |
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