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- Title
Leptospirosis in febrile patients with suspected diagnosis of dengue fever.
- Authors
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
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
PERU; DENGUE; DENGUE hemorrhagic fever; DIAGNOSIS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; DENGUE viruses; SYMPTOMS
- Publication
BMC Research Notes, 2021, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1756-0500
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s13104-021-05627-3