Uncovering the burden of dengue in Africa: considerations on magnitude, misdiagnosis, and ancestry

EM Gainor, E Harris, AD LaBeaud - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Dengue is a re-emerging neglected disease of major public health importance. This review
highlights important considerations for dengue disease in Africa, including epidemiology …

Global prevalence and distribution of coinfection of malaria, dengue and chikungunya: a systematic review

N Salam, S Mustafa, A Hafiz, AA Chaudhary, F Deeba… - BMC public health, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Background Malaria, Dengue and Chikungunya are vector borne diseases with
shared endemic profiles and symptoms. Coinfections with any of these diseases could have …

Increasing prevalence of malaria and acute dengue virus coinfection in Africa: a meta-analysis and meta-regression of cross-sectional studies

TT Gebremariam, HDFH Schallig, ZM Kurmane… - Malaria Journal, 2023 - Springer
Background Malaria and dengue fever are the leading causes of acute, undifferentiated
febrile illness. In Africa, misdiagnosis of dengue fever as malaria is a common scenario …

The impact of climate change on mosquito-borne diseases in Africa

C Giesen, J Roche, L Redondo-Bravo… - … and Global Health, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Despite being one of the continents with the least greenhouse gas emissions, no continent
is being struck as severely by climate change (CC) as Africa. Mosquito-borne diseases …

Identification of dengue and chikungunya cases among suspected cases of yellow fever in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

S Makiala-Mandanda, S Ahuka-Mundeke… - Vector-Borne and …, 2018 - liebertpub.com
For more than 95% of acute febrile jaundice cases identified through surveillance for yellow
fever, a reemerging arthropod-borne viral disease, no etiological exploration is ever done …

Worldwide distribution, symptoms and diagnosis of the coinfections between malaria and arboviral diseases: a systematic review

M Cerilo-Filho, ML Arouca, ES Medeiros… - Memórias do Instituto …, 2024 - SciELO Brasil
The coinfection between malaria (ML) and arboviral diseases represents a major global
public health problem, particularly in tropical and subtropical countries. Despite its …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating spatio-temporal distribution and diffusion patterns of the dengue outbreak in Swat, Pakistan

S Atique, TC Chan, CC Chen, CY Hsu, S Iqtidar… - Journal of infection and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Introduction Dengue has been endemic to Pakistan in the last two decades. There was a
massive outbreak in the Swat valley in 2013. Here we demonstrate the spatio-temporal …

Malaria and dengue in Hodeidah city, Yemen: High proportion of febrile outpatients with dengue or malaria, but low proportion co-infected

R Abdul-Ghani, MAK Mahdy, S Alkubati… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background The emergence of dengue in malaria-endemic countries with limited diagnostic
resources, such as Yemen, can be problematic because presumptive treatment of febrile …

Concurrent Infection with Plasmodium vivax and the Dengue and Chikungunya Viruses in a Paediatric Patient from New Delhi, India in 2016

A Tazeen, M Abdullah, M Hisamuddin, S Ali, IH Naqvi… - Intervirology, 2017 - karger.com
Dengue and chikungunya fevers are transmitted by the common mosquito vector Aedes and
malaria by Anopheles. Concurrent infections are reported due to co-circulation of these …

Plasmodium knowlesi (Pk) Malaria: A Review & Proposal of Therapeutically Rational Exchange (T-REX) of Pk-Resistant Red Blood Cells

RP Jajosky, SC Wu, PG Jajosky… - Tropical Medicine and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Plasmodium knowlesi (Pk) causes zoonotic malaria and is known as the “fifth human
malaria parasite”. Pk malaria is an emerging threat because infections are increasing and …