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Coinfection of COVID-19 and Dengue: A Case Report
While the COVID-19 pandemic takes the world by storm, dengue-endemic regions risk developing a co-epidemic in COVID-19/dengue coinfection. With both infections as causes of high morbidity rates, the potentially fatal outcomes of coinfection are even greater, and several cases are emerging, severe an...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9386617/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35991668 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.872627 |
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author | Prapty, Chowdhury Nusaiba Binte Sayed Ahmed, Nafisa Araf, Yusha Yang, Zhijun Zhai, Jingbo Hosen, Mohammad Jakir Zheng, Chunfu |
author_facet | Prapty, Chowdhury Nusaiba Binte Sayed Ahmed, Nafisa Araf, Yusha Yang, Zhijun Zhai, Jingbo Hosen, Mohammad Jakir Zheng, Chunfu |
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description | While the COVID-19 pandemic takes the world by storm, dengue-endemic regions risk developing a co-epidemic in COVID-19/dengue coinfection. With both infections as causes of high morbidity rates, the potentially fatal outcomes of coinfection are even greater, and several cases are emerging, severe and moderate, showing how common it may become in certain regions. The case reported here shows a 38-year-old male patient with high-grade fever, with complaints of nausea, joint, and muscle aches, all characteristic symptoms of COVID-19 and dengue. Initially suspected of being infected with COVID-19 only, the RT-PCR test of the nasopharyngeal swab confirmed COVID-19 infection, while the positive reactivity to IgG and IgM in the Dengue Duo test revealed a dengue coinfection. Except for the persistent high fever, the Patient's symptoms were not severe, although the tests confirmed the infections to be “moderate to severe” and showed steady and rapid recovery. The tests showed some interesting results, which provided additional research opportunities. Overall, this case report illustrates the existence of coinfections in the Philippines, demonstrating the difficulty in distinguishing the two infections and the need for proper diagnosis, prevention, and management measures. |
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spelling | pubmed-93866172022-08-19 Coinfection of COVID-19 and Dengue: A Case Report Prapty, Chowdhury Nusaiba Binte Sayed Ahmed, Nafisa Araf, Yusha Yang, Zhijun Zhai, Jingbo Hosen, Mohammad Jakir Zheng, Chunfu Front Med (Lausanne) Medicine While the COVID-19 pandemic takes the world by storm, dengue-endemic regions risk developing a co-epidemic in COVID-19/dengue coinfection. With both infections as causes of high morbidity rates, the potentially fatal outcomes of coinfection are even greater, and several cases are emerging, severe and moderate, showing how common it may become in certain regions. The case reported here shows a 38-year-old male patient with high-grade fever, with complaints of nausea, joint, and muscle aches, all characteristic symptoms of COVID-19 and dengue. Initially suspected of being infected with COVID-19 only, the RT-PCR test of the nasopharyngeal swab confirmed COVID-19 infection, while the positive reactivity to IgG and IgM in the Dengue Duo test revealed a dengue coinfection. Except for the persistent high fever, the Patient's symptoms were not severe, although the tests confirmed the infections to be “moderate to severe” and showed steady and rapid recovery. The tests showed some interesting results, which provided additional research opportunities. Overall, this case report illustrates the existence of coinfections in the Philippines, demonstrating the difficulty in distinguishing the two infections and the need for proper diagnosis, prevention, and management measures. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9386617/ /pubmed/35991668 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.872627 Text en Copyright © 2022 Prapty, Ahmed, Araf, Yang, Zhai, Hosen and Zheng. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Medicine Prapty, Chowdhury Nusaiba Binte Sayed Ahmed, Nafisa Araf, Yusha Yang, Zhijun Zhai, Jingbo Hosen, Mohammad Jakir Zheng, Chunfu Coinfection of COVID-19 and Dengue: A Case Report |
title | Coinfection of COVID-19 and Dengue: A Case Report |
title_full | Coinfection of COVID-19 and Dengue: A Case Report |
title_fullStr | Coinfection of COVID-19 and Dengue: A Case Report |
title_full_unstemmed | Coinfection of COVID-19 and Dengue: A Case Report |
title_short | Coinfection of COVID-19 and Dengue: A Case Report |
title_sort | coinfection of covid-19 and dengue: a case report |
topic | Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9386617/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35991668 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.872627 |
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