Malaria and dengue in Hodeidah city, Yemen: High proportion of febrile outpatients with dengue or malaria, but low proportion co-infected.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The emergence of dengue in malaria-endemic countries with limited diagnostic resources, such as Yemen, can be problematic because presumptive treatment of febrile cases as being malaria is a common practice. Co-infections with dengue and malaria are often overlooked and misdiagnosed as being a mono-infection because of clinical similarities. In Hodeidah city, Yemen, the capacity to conduct the diagnosis can be aggravated by the war context. To assess the magnitude of the problem, we determined the proportions of malaria, dengue and co-infection in relation to clinical characteristics among febrile outpatients.

Methods

This cross-sectional study included 355 febrile outpatients from Hodeidah city during the malaria transmission season (September 2018 -February 2019

SUBMITTER: Abdul-Ghani R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8232408 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature