Pitfalls in dengue diagnosis and management include: Lack Of Effective Communication With Caregivers Inadequate Diagnostic Tests And Medications Differential Diagnosis With Other Acute Febrile Illnesses Fluid Therapy Bleeding Tendency Organopathy. [...]
"The paradigm shift in the severity of dengue cases is due to increase in viral virulence, point mutation leading to more organ involvement, prolonged fluid leakage and multi-organ failure." Get [...]
Insight #3 from the 3rd Asia Dengue Summit 2018 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia): Proactive management of dengue involves a multi-disciplinary effort with team training, rehearsal of skills from triage to ICU [...]
Silent dengue infection in asymptomatic individuals constitutes the unrecognized disease in the community, which is responsible for constant prevalence of the disease. Asymptomatic individuals can transmit the dengue virus to [...]
How should the policymakers and public health leaders in Asia take on the looming dengue epidemic in the years ahead? The answers can be found in our annual meeting. To [...]
Image: 3D cross section of a Dengue virus showing structural components. Source: Girish Khera, Scientific Animations - http://www.scientificanimations.com/ Asia Dengue Summit, 15 April 2019 - Two separate news reports over the first few weeks of April (The Jakarta [...]
