| evaluation of febrile patients in port sudan, sudan: isolation of dengue virus. | one hundred consecutive patients admitted to the port sudan hospital with a temperature greater than or equal to 100 degrees f were evaluated. enteric fever was diagnosed in 19 patients and malaria in 13. virologic studies identified 21 cases of dengue infection. one dengue 1 and 17 dengue 2 infections were diagnosed by viral isolation. three untyped dengue infections were identified serologically. the clinical presentation and course of patients infected with dengue virus were most consistent w ... | 1986 | 3728800 |
| spatial and temporal patterns of dengue transmission along a red sea coastline: a longitudinal entomological and serological survey in port sudan city. | dengue is an emerging health problem in several coastlines along the red sea. the objective of the present work is to elucidate spatial and temporal patterns of dengue transmission in port sudan. | 2012 | 23029582 |
| dengue vector control and surveillance during a major outbreak in a coastal red sea area in sudan. | an unprecedented dengue outbreak occurred in 2010 in port sudan city, sudan. dengue incidence was 94 cases per 10 000 observed over 17 epidemiological weeks (total cases = 3 765). we report here the impact of the vector control response plan to the outbreak, which mainly entailed house inspection and insecticide space spraying. in total 3 048 houses were inspected during vector surveillance and 19 794 larvae and 3 240 pupae of aedes aegypti were collected. entomological indices decreased during ... | 2012 | 23301396 |