| a serological survey of st lucia. | a serological survey of a random sample of 541 of the population of st lucia was undertaken. the prevalence of antibodies to dengue, herpes virus, vz, rotavirus, rubella and syphilis is described and compared with other communities. | 1979 | 232090 |
| detection of dengue infection in patients investigated for leptospirosis in barbados. | the annual incidence of leptospirosis in barbados is approximately 13 severe cases/100,000. the peak incidence occurs in october to december of each year, coinciding with the months of heaviest rainfall. during the second half of 1995, an epidemic of dengue type 1 infection produced almost 1,000 laboratory-confirmed cases. during the same period, leptospirosis mortality was twice the average, suggesting that some cases of leptospirosis were being misdiagnosed and treated inappropriately. sera fr ... | 2000 | 10761734 |
| evaluation of a commercial latex agglutination assay for serological diagnosis of leptospirosis. | leptospirosis is a febrile zoonosis of worldwide distribution. a latex agglutination assay was evaluated in two studies, the first using a panel of well-characterized sera from patients with leptospirosis and from patients with other disease states and the second, a prospective hospital-based study, evaluating sera from 186 consecutive patients admitted to hospital with acute febrile illness. the confirmed leptospirosis serum panel included paired acute- and convalescent-phase specimens from 40 ... | 2006 | 16672421 |
| a quantitative risk assessment of west nile virus introduction into barbados. | to present a quantitative risk assessment of west nile (wnv) virus introduction into barbados, west indies. | 2007 | 18303749 |
| an analysis of the subtypes of dengue fever infections in barbados 2003-2007 by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. | to perform a retrospective analysis of patients with igm antibodies to dengue fever infection to determine the serotypes present by molecular techniques. a representative sample (approximately 20%/per year) of patients diagnosed with dengue fever infection were selected based on the detection of igm antibodies in the acute phase serum sample. rna was extracted from each sample and reverse transcribed. following this, the amplicons were electrophoresed and serotyped based on band sizes. | 2008 | 19091073 |
| event history analysis of dengue fever epidemic and inter-epidemic spells in barbados, brazil, and thailand. | this study investigated meteorological and demographic factors affecting the length of dengue fever epidemics and the length of time between epidemics in barbados, brazil, and thailand. | 2012 | 22878174 |
| epidemiological trends and clinical manifestations of dengue among children in one of the english-speaking caribbean countries. | the epidemiology and clinical presentation of dengue fever among children in the caribbean is poorly characterized. we therefore studied the epidemiology, clinical presentation, immunological characteristics, morbidity and mortality from dengue virus infection among children in barbados, one of the english-speaking caribbean countries. | 2013 | 23423432 |
| hantavirus infection among children hospitalized for febrile illness suspected to be dengue in barbados. | emerging picture of hantavirus infection in the south america is characterized by greater proportion of childhood infection and wider spectrum of disease from mild asymptomatic to lethal cardiopulmonary disease. barbados is endemic for dengue and leptospirosis, both of which share clinical features with hantavirus infection and in many cases neither of these diagnosis could be confirmed. we investigate whether some of the children hospitalized with suspected dengue could indeed have been hantavi ... | 2016 | 26153080 |
| trends in the patterns of igm and igg antibodies in febrile persons with suspected dengue in barbados, an english-speaking caribbean country, 2006-2013. | long-term seroprevalence studies of dengue have provided a measure of the degree of endemicity and future trends in disease prevalence and severity. in this study, we describe the seroprevalence of dengue antibodies in febrile persons with suspected acute dengue in barbados. it is a retrospective population-based study of all febrile persons with suspected dengue from 2006 to 2013. all of the cases had igm and igg antibodies in the blood sample drawn between days 3 and 5 of their illness. among ... | 2015 | 26117708 |
| the clinical characteristics and outcome of children hospitalized with dengue in barbados, an english caribbean country. | although dengue is endemic in all english-speaking caribbean countries, there are no published studies on the clinical presentations and outcomes of children hospitalized with dengue from this region. this study aims to assess the clinical charcteristics and the outcome in children hospitalized with dengue. | 2015 | 25881529 |
| climatological variables and the incidence of dengue fever in barbados. | a retrospective study to determine relationships between the incidence of dengue cases and climatological variables and to obtain a predictive equation was carried out for the relatively small caribbean island of barbados which is divided into 11 parishes. the study used the weekly dengue cases and precipitation data for the years (1995 - 2000) that occurred in the small area of a single parish. other climatological data were obtained from the local meteorological offices. the study used primari ... | 2004 | 15545038 |
| a point source dengue outbreak in canadian tourists in barbados. | | 1998 | 9813909 |
| poliomyelitis, rubella, and dengue antibody survey in barbados. a follow-up study. | a follow-up study of poliomyelitis, rubella, and dengue antibodies has been made in light of results obtained in a 1972 health and serological survey in barbados, w.i. poliomyelitis antibody neutralization tests performed on sera from 307 children under age 15 using overnight serum/virus mixtures on microtiter plates at low serum dilutions revealed the absence of polio antibody at 1:2 dilution in 13.7% for type 1, 6.5% for type 2, and 14.3% for type 3 virus. a significant correlation of the pres ... | 1979 | 536094 |