Clinical features and treatment of haemorrhagic dengue fever
- Author:
Ha Dang Le
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
dengue fever
- MeSH:
Dengue;
diagnosis;
therapeutics
- From:Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Information
1998;(1):5-12
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
There are about 20 millions of people infected by dengue virus and 500 cases of haemorrhagic fever admitted to hospital every year in the world in which the mortality rate of the disease was 5%, even 15%. In Vietnam, the dengue fever and haemorrhagic dengue fever was an epidemic that its frequency of circulation was increasingly. During recent 5 years, the morbidity number and the mortality number of dengue fever/ haemorrhagic dengue fever were 10,8431 cases and 234 deaths, respectively. The diagnosis of the disease involved the viral isolation and serum diagnosis. The treatment involved the symptomatic management, close monitoring and timely management of shock
