Dengue fever is an acute infectious disease caused by Dengue virus and transmitted through the bite of the vector Aedes mosquito. There are two types of mosquitoes capable of transmitting dengue fever, Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti, both of whic...
Dengue fever(DF)outbreaks affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide and have increased significantly in Guangdong Province in 2019.What is added by this report?This paper described briefly DF outbreaks were attributed to several types of dengue virus(DENV)including DENV-1,DENV-2,and DENV-3...
Dengue virushas caused numerous outbreaks throughout the south-west Pacific region since it was first recognized among servicemen during the Second World War. Subsequently, in the south-west Pacific, multipledengue viruseshave affected Tahiti, with haemorrhagic dengue first encountered in 1971. In addit...
9 Either Dengue is a disease caused by a virus transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.The virus is transferred to humans when adult female mosquitoes feed on human blood. Figure 9.1 shows the life cycle of a mosquito.adult pupa eggs er larvae Figure9.1(a)In a bid to control the mosquit...
Dengue infections are caused by four closely related viruses named DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3, and DEN-4. These four viruses are called serotypes because each has different interactions with the antibodies in human blood serum. The four dengue viruses are similar — they share approximately 65% of...
Dengue feveris an arbovirus infection caused by one of four distinct serotypes of dengue virus (DENV 1–4). DENV is endemic in several countries from Asia, Africa, and South and Central America. Similarly to ZIKV, DENV is transmitted by the widespread and invasive mosquito speciesA. aegypti...
Dengue fever is caused by the dengue virus and the virus is spread from dengue-infected individuals to well dengue-free persons by the black-and-white striped female Aedes aegypti mosquito when it takes a blood meal. Once an individual contracts dengue, the person manifests symptoms of the dis...
(DHF)1. Dengue is caused by four serologically- and genetically-related viruses, termed DENV-1 to DENV-4, which are members of the genusFlavivirus, familyFlaviviridae. DENV has a single-stranded, positive-sense RNA genome that encodes a single polyprotein, which is processed to generate 10 ...
Dengue fever caused by dengue virus serotype - 3 (subtype-III) in a rural area of Madurai district, Tamil Nadu.A letter to the editor is presented about a study on the role of the dengue virus serotype 3 in the prevalence of dengue fever in Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, India.Indian ...
Dengue (pronounced DEN-gee) fever is a mosquito-borne disease caused by any one of four closely related dengue viruses. You get dengue fever through the bite of an aedes mosquito infected with a dengue virus. The mosquito becomes infected when it bites a person with dengue virus in theirbloo...