Dillon, Jasmine, and McBride, John Hannan (2014) A review of hospitalised cases of dengue in Cairns, Queensland, during a dengue serotype 3 virus epidemic in 2008-2009. Annals of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine, 15 (2). pp. 41-44.

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Abstract

A large outbreak of Dengue 3 occurred during the wet season of 2008/9 in the city of Cairns in Far North Queensland, Australia. Of the 915 reported cases of Dengue 3, there were 73 patients requiring 75 hospital admissions. When compared with a dengue 3 epidemic that occurred in 1997/8, the rate of hospital admission was lower, but there were more (six) recorded cases of Dengue Haemorrhagic fever. One of the patients had SIADH in association with encephalopathy. Use of the old diagnostic criteria for DHF was associated with inability to classify many patients. There was one recorded death. Increasingly frequent outbreaks of dengue can be expected to be associated with more frequent occurrence of severe cases.

Item ID:	44696
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1448-4706
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Date Deposited:	13 Sep 2016 01:48
FoR Codes:	11 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES > 1103 Clinical Sciences > 110309 Infectious Diseases @ 34% 11 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES > 1107 Immunology > 110702 Applied Immunology (incl Antibody Engineering, Xenotransplantation and T-cell Therapies) @ 33% 11 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES > 1117 Public Health and Health Services > 111706 Epidemiology @ 33%
SEO Codes:	92 HEALTH > 9201 Clinical Health (Organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions) > 920109 Infectious Diseases @ 50% 92 HEALTH > 9204 Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health) > 920404 Disease Distribution and Transmission (incl. Surveillance and Response) @ 50%
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