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Original Source: Acute myocarditis in dengue hemorrhagic fever: a case report and review of cardiac complications in dengue-affected patients.
We report a case of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) complicated by acute myocarditis and review the literature. A 65-year-old woman experienced DHF due to dengue virus serotype 3, complicated with acute myocarditis and acute pulmonary edema. Clinically this masqueraded as acute myocardial infarction, with an electrocardiographically depressed ST segment in precordial leads and elevated serum cardiac-specific troponin I level. Under supportive management, the patient recovered 3 days later. A total of 18 pert...
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It is estimated that about 100 million cases of infection by Dengue virus occur each year and that nearly half the world’s population is at risk of Dengue virus infection. At present, no vacci...
Tropical Medicine is the study of diseases more commonly found in tropical regions than elsewhere. Examples of these diseases are malaria, yellow fever, Chagas disease, Dengue, Helminths, African tr...
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Dengue Fever Cases Have Been Seriously Underestimated -- NPR
Jason Beaubien reports on neglected tropical diseases and the increasing global disease burden of dengue that, until now, was hidden. "[A] new...study says there could be as many as 400 million dengue...
Dengue Vaccine Initiative launches redesigned website, new blog
The Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases' "End the Neglect" blog reports that the Dengue Vaccine Initiative has launched a redesigned website, including a new blog that "will include regular...
Barriers to preclinical investigations of anti-dengue immunity and dengue pathogenesis
Although great progress has been made in the field of dengue research, there are still many unanswered questions concerning the interactions between dengue virus and the human immune system. In this O...
Setback for Sanofi dengue vaccine
Sanofi Pasteur’s vaccine for dengue fever has failed to show protection against a key serotype of the potentially fatal illness. Results published in The Lancet of a phase IIb trial of CYD-TDV in Th...
Dengue Test Using Flu Diagnostic Equipment Approved, USA
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new diagnostic test, the CDC DENV-1-4 Real Time RT PCR Assay developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to detect the dengue virus i...
Dengue Vaccine Initiative welcomes latest progress in vaccine development
(Sabin Vaccine Institute) Today, the Dengue Vaccine Initiative welcomed new clinical trial results that reveal progress in developing the first-ever dengue vaccine. In a publication in the Lancet, pha...
New study lessens concerns about dengue vaccine production costs
"Research funded by the Dengue Vaccine Initiative (DVI) involving an economic analysis of producing a tetravalent dengue vaccine shows that the cost could be as low as $0.20 per dose with an annual pr...
Clinical trial results indicate advance in Dengue vaccine research by Sanofi Pasteur
The Dengue Vaccine Initiative (DVI) has welcomed new clinical trial results that reveal progress in developing the first-ever dengue vaccine. In a publication in The Lancet, pharmaceutical company San...
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We report a case of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) complicated by acute myocarditis and review the literature. A 65-year-old woman experienced DHF due to dengue virus serotype 3, complicated with acut...
Notes from the field: school reporting of a dengue outbreak - st. Croix, u.s. Virgin islands, 2012.
Dengue is endemic in the U.S. Virgin Islands, but no outbreaks have been reported since 2005. In November 2012, a school nurse in St. Croix reported suspected dengue in 27 (7%) of 369 students and sta...
Dengue Fever in South Korea, 2006-2010.
TO THE EDITOR: Dengue fever is an acute, febrile disease caused by a flavivirus and is transmitted by Aedes spp. mosquitoes (1). South Korea is not considered as a region to which dengue virus is ende...
Acute fulminant myocarditis is a life-threatening disease in children. A limited number of reports suggest that mechanical circulatory support (MCS) may be used to successfully bridge children with a...
A National Survey on Myocarditis Associated With the 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) Pandemic in Japan.
Background: An influenza pandemic occurred in 2009 and myocarditis associated with the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic was reported among hospitalized patients from August 2009. Methods and Results:...
