dengue fever in dar es salaam tanzania clinical features and outcome in populations of black and non black racial category

• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1271050
• Publication Date: 2018-12-01
• Authors: Aline Mamin; Laurent Kaiser; Valérie D'Acremont; Valérie D'Acremont; Leticia Franco Na...; Belia Klaassen; Zainab Mbarack; Noémie Boillat-Bl...; John Masimba; Tarsis Mlaganile; Blaise Genton; Blaise Genton; Josephine Samaka
• Keywords: Adult; Male; Malaria / epidemiology; Race; Severe Dengue / diagnosis; Black People; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Tanzania / epidemiology; Serogroup; Adult; African Continental Ancestry Group/statistics & numerical data; Coinfection/epidemiology; Dengue Virus/genetics; Dengue Virus/isolation & purification; Disease Outbreaks; Ethnic Groups/statistics & numerical data; Female; Humans; Incidence; Malaria/diagnosis; Malaria/epidemiology; Malaria/ethnology; Male; Middle Aged; Prognosis; Retrospective Studies; Serogroup; Severe Dengue/diagnosis; Severe Dengue/epidemiology; Severe Dengue/ethnology; Tanzania/epidemiology; Young Adult; Dengue; Outbreak; Race; Sub-saharan Africa; Surveillance; Malaria / ethnology; Sub-saharan Africa; Tanzania; Disease Outbreaks; Dengue; Young Adult; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/616; Ethnicity; Severe Dengue / epidemiology; Humans; Severe Dengue; race; severe dengue; Retrospective Studies; Coinfection / epidemiology; Ethnicity / statistics & numerical data; Surveillance; Dengue Virus / isolation & purification; Coinfection; Incidence; Malaria / diagnosis; Outbreak; Dengue Virus; Middle Aged; Severe Dengue / ethnology; Prognosis; dengue; Blacks / statistics & numerical data; Malaria; 3. Good health; Dengue Virus / genetics; Female; Research Article

Adults with confirmed dengue (NS1 and/or IgM on rapid diagnostic test and/or PCR positive) were included between December 2013 and July 2014 in outpatient clinics in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Seven-day outcome was assessed by a visit or a call. Available data include demographic characteristics, comorbidities, race and clinical presentation, including warning signs.