Clinical and epidemiologic characteristics associated with dengue fever in Mombasa, Kenya.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Information on dengue in Africa is limited. To estimate the proportion of dengue-positive cases among febrile patients and describe clinical indicators of dengue, we conducted passive health facility-based fever surveillance in Mombasa, Kenya.

Methods

Non-malarial febrile patients between one and 55 years were enrolled at three health facilities between March 2016 and May 2017. Acute and convalescent blood samples were collected with an interval of 10-21 days. Acute samples were tested with dengue RDT and a selected subset with RT-PCR, and acute/convalescent samples with IgM/IgG ELISA.

Results

Among 482 enrollees, 295 (61.2%) were dengue-positive based on laboratory results. The surveillance covered the beginning of a dengue outbreak in April-May 2017, duri

SUBMITTER: Lim JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7670221 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature