A Rare Presentation of Coinfection: Dengue Virus and Hepatitis A Virus
Dengue fever caused by dengue virus is a common tropical infection transmitted by the mosquitos Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Four strains of the genus flavivirus is responsible for the epidemics of varying severity. Hepatitis A caused by hepatitis A virus is spread by faecal-oral route. The c...
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| author | I. Ranathunga L. S. Kannangara K. A. S Bandara S. B. Gunatilake |
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| description | Dengue fever caused by dengue virus is a common tropical infection transmitted by the mosquitos Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Four strains of the genus flavivirus is responsible for the epidemics of varying severity. Hepatitis A caused by hepatitis A virus is spread by faecal-oral route. The culprit virus is a hepatovirus. Coinfection with dengue virus and hepatitis A virus is rare and is a diagnostic as well as management challenge to the medical professional. We report a patient who presented to us with dengue virus and hepatitis A virus coinfection. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-789b39bd014a48afa4e0545fea8a67de2025-08-20T03:35:11ZengWileyCase Reports in Infectious Diseases2090-66252090-66332019-01-01201910.1155/2019/97828929782892A Rare Presentation of Coinfection: Dengue Virus and Hepatitis A VirusI. Ranathunga0L. S. Kannangara1K. A. S Bandara2S. B. Gunatilake3Registrar in Medicine, Professorial Medical Unit, Colombo South Teaching Hospital, Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia, Sri LankaSenior Registrar in Medicine, Professorial Medical Unit, Colombo South Teaching Hospital, Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia, Sri LankaRegistrar in Medicine, Professorial Medical Unit, Colombo South Teaching Hospital, Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia, Sri LankaProfessor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri LankaDengue fever caused by dengue virus is a common tropical infection transmitted by the mosquitos Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Four strains of the genus flavivirus is responsible for the epidemics of varying severity. Hepatitis A caused by hepatitis A virus is spread by faecal-oral route. The culprit virus is a hepatovirus. Coinfection with dengue virus and hepatitis A virus is rare and is a diagnostic as well as management challenge to the medical professional. We report a patient who presented to us with dengue virus and hepatitis A virus coinfection.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/9782892 |
| spellingShingle | I. Ranathunga L. S. Kannangara K. A. S Bandara S. B. Gunatilake A Rare Presentation of Coinfection: Dengue Virus and Hepatitis A Virus Case Reports in Infectious Diseases |
| title | A Rare Presentation of Coinfection: Dengue Virus and Hepatitis A Virus |
| title_full | A Rare Presentation of Coinfection: Dengue Virus and Hepatitis A Virus |
| title_fullStr | A Rare Presentation of Coinfection: Dengue Virus and Hepatitis A Virus |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Rare Presentation of Coinfection: Dengue Virus and Hepatitis A Virus |
| title_short | A Rare Presentation of Coinfection: Dengue Virus and Hepatitis A Virus |
| title_sort | rare presentation of coinfection dengue virus and hepatitis a virus |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/9782892 |
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