Exempel på dengue

• Dengue, a disease peculiar to the tropics, occurs in hot weather, and attacks one suddenly with high fever and violent pains, and after a relapse returns in a milder form and leaves the patient very weak. 

• It was simple malaria, known in the Southwest as dengue fever. 

• Malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, and bubonic plague may be caught in this way. 

• Toward ten o'clock, however, the monsoon veered, and, wing-and-wing, the old boat, creaking in every joint as if she had the dengue, grunted her way over flashing combers with a speed that seemed almost indecent. 

• On multivariate analysis, the only independent factor associated with a higher prevalence of dengue virus serotypes was nationality.

• During 2001, a massive campaign called ' mosquitoblitz ' was implemented to prevent the occurrence of the dengue epidemic that usually emerges after the dry season.

• Manipulation of these sets of genes leading to refractoriness to dengue infections could be an alternative way to control dengue.

• The ratio of less than 1.8 : 1 indicated a secondary dengue infection.

• Using the non-specific indices, we were able to identify four clear epidemics, two of which were shown to be linked to dengue.

• Peaks 1 and 2 : confirmed epidemics of dengue.

• For dengue surveillance, the creation of sentinel networks is given high priority.

• A significant decrease of dengue susceptibility was observed in populations during the dry season.

• The presence in the previous year of any symptom related to leptospirosis (fever, jaundice, acholia or choluria) or dengue fever, was also registered.

• The clinical symptoms of malaria and dengue fever are similar in acute bouts, with both typically causing thrombocytopenia.

• A high rate of gene flow could be exploited to spread genes with defective effects on dengue transmission.

• It could be used in all regions at risk of dengue and malaria.

• Rapid identification of dengue virus isolates by using monoclonal antibodies in an indirect immunofluorescence assay.

• By contrast, small females ingest less blood and thus have less opportunity to acquire dengue infection orally.

• Dengue : the risk to developed and developing countries.