Dengue infection in children in Ratchaburi, Thailand: a cohort study. II. Clinical manifestations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dengue infection is one of the most important mosquito-borne diseases. More data regarding the disease burden and the prevalence of each clinical spectrum among symptomatic infections and the clinical manifestations are needed. This study aims to describe the incidence and clinical manifestations of symptomatic dengue infection in Thai children during 2006 through 2008.

Study design

This study is a school-based prospective open cohort study with a 9,448 person-year follow-up in children aged 3-14 years. Active surveillance for febrile illnesses was done in the studied subjects. Subjects who had febrile illness were asked to visit the study hospital for clinical and laboratory evaluation, treatment, and serological tests for dengue infection. The clinical data from

SUBMITTER: Sirivichayakul C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3289597 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature