2015, Number 1
Clinical and epidemiological behavior of Dengue in 10 de Octubre municipality
Language: Spanish
References: 25
Page: 5-16
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: dengue is an infectious viral disease that affects the Americas; it can occur in epidemics or endemic.Objective: describe some of Dengue clinical and epidemiological variables.
Methods: a descriptive, retrospective and cross-section study was conducted in all patients diagnosed with Dengue in 10 de Octubre Municipality, during the epidemic occurred from June to December 2006. The study sample consisted of 5054 patients. An epidemiological survey approved by the Ministry of Health for the collection of data was used.
Results: there was a predominance of females; adults were the most affected and the age group 25-59 years had the highest percentage. 94.7% of patients had not previously suffered dengue. The most common symptoms were fever, headache, arthralgia, myalgia and retro orbital pain. The most affected municipality polyclinics were: Raúl Gómez García, 14 de Junio and Louis Pasteur.
Conclusions: environmental sanitation had problems by the presence of micro dumps and water leaks. Entomologically there was found a relationship of reported cases with Aedes aegypti positive foci blocks, and a higher percentage in those that were recurring. There was correlation with clinical epidemiology.
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