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- Title
Both Viremia and Cytokine Levels Associate with the Lack of Severe Disease in Secondary Dengue 1 Infection among Adult Chinese Patients.
- Authors
Yangbo Tang; Zhihua Kou; Fuchun Zhang; Xian Yao; Shengyong Liu; Jingming Ma; Yusen Zhou; Wei Zhao; Xiaoping Tang; Xia Jin
- Abstract
Secondary dengue infections are frequently associated with increased risk for dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome. Surprisingly, we observed no dengue hemorrhagic fever cases among 353 hospitalized dengue-infected patients including 212 with primary, and 141 with secondary dengue 1 infection in China. To explore virological and immunological mechanisms which may account for this unexpected clinical observation, we assessed dengue viremia, type I interferon and inflammatory cytokine levels in these patients. While the levels of viremia and inflammatory cytokines are indistinguishable between primary and secondary infections, IFNα levels are significantly higher in primary than that in secondary infection. However, IFNα levels are positively correlated with dengue viremia levels (p<0.0001), but negatively correlated with the platelet counts (p<0.0001) and serum ALT levels (p = 0.0003). These results provide direct in vivo evidence that clinical dengue disease severity is affected by both viral and human immune factors.
- Subjects
CHINA; VIREMIA; CYTOKINES; DENGUE; DENGUE hemorrhagic fever; INTERFERONS; INFECTION; BLOOD platelets; SERUM
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2010, Vol 5, Issue 12, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0015631