A Patient With Dengue Fever and COVID-19 : Coinfection or Not?

Copyright © 2020, Malibari et al..

Co-epidemics can create a burden on healthcare systems in the affected areas. The world, at present, is facing the pandemic of coronavirus disease. Nonetheless, many areas worldwide suffer from endemics that are not of less danger than the current pandemic. We presented a case of a patient diagnosed with dengue fever and was also found to have coronavirus through nasal swab, but immunoglobulin M and G were undetectable. Our case brings to notice the alarming probability of two co-epidemics happening simultaneously. However, through the presented case, our theory is that the dengue virus may cause a false-positive detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Cureus - 12(2020), 12 vom: 07. Dez., Seite e11955

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Malibari, Afnan A [VerfasserIn]
Al-Husayni, Faisal [VerfasserIn]
Jabri, Abdullah [VerfasserIn]
Al-Amri, Abdulfattah [VerfasserIn]
Alharbi, Maher [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Case Reports
Co-infection
Covid-19
Dengue fever
Dengue virus infection
Epidemic
Healthcare system
Pandemic
Public health
Sars-cov2

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Date Revised 16.12.2020

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.7759/cureus.11955

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM318780992