| cross-sectional community-based study of the socio-demographic factors associated with the prevalence of dengue in the eastern part of sudan in 2011. | dengue is caused by an arthropod-borne flavivirus. infection can be either primary or secondary based on serology, with each stage of the disease characterized by specific serological conversion and antibody formation. further study is needed to fully identify the factors associated with and predisposing to dengue infection. the objective of this study was to identify socio-demographic factors associated with the prevalence of dengue serotypes in kassala state in the eastern part of sudan in 201 ... | 2015 | 26084275 |
| sero-prevalence of dengue infections in the kassala state in the eastern part of the sudan in 2011. | dengue fever is a vector-borne disease that is transmitted to humans by infected aedes aegypti mosquitoes. the eastern part of the sudan is one of the regions that is affected by dengue virus circulation. in this study, we estimated the prevalence of dengue infections in the kassala state in the eastern part of the sudan. the study objective was to estimate the sero-prevalence of dengue igg/igm antibodies in the kassala locality in 2011. this was a cross sectional community-based study that util ... | 2015 | 25975993 |
| correlation of measles and dengue infection in kassala, eastern sudan. | using the clinical case definition adopted by the world health organization, a total of 275 suspected cases of measles were enrolled in this study during january-march 2012 in kassala teaching hospital, eastern sudan. various clinical manifestations (fever, headache, cough, coryza, conjunctivitis, skin rash, vomiting, diarrhoea, convulsion, and hemorrhagic manifestations) were reported among these patients. blood was withdrawn from the first 64 (23.3%) patients. two samples were hemolyzed and on ... | 2015 | 24980486 |
| epidemiology of dengue infections in kassala, eastern sudan. | eighty-one (71.7%) out of 113 patients had confirmed dengue infection (using elisa igm serology) at kassala, eastern sudan during the period of august through november 2010. according to the who criteria, dengue fever (df), dengue hemorrhagic fever (dhf), and dengue shock syndrome (dss) were observed in 30.9, 58, and 11.1% of these patients, respectively. the mean age of these 81 patients was 25.5 years. male:female ratio was 1.8:1. various symptoms including fever (100%), headache (75.3%), vomi ... | 2012 | 22246838 |