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. 2012 Jan;86(1):58-64.
doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.11-0190.

Hospital-based prevalence of malaria and dengue in febrile patients in Bangladesh

Labib I Faruque  1 , Rashid Uz Zaman, A S M Alamgir, Emily S Gurley, Rashidul Haque, Mahmudur Rahman, Stephen P Luby
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Hospital-based prevalence of malaria and dengue in febrile patients in Bangladesh

Labib I Faruque et al. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2012 Jan.

Abstract

We conducted a nationwide study at six tertiary hospitals from December 2008 through November 2009 to investigate etiologies of febrile illnesses in Bangladesh. Febrile patients meeting a clinical case definition were enrolled from inpatient and outpatient medicine and pediatric units. We assessed 720 febrile patients over 12 months; 69 (9.6%) were positive for IgM antibodies against dengue virus by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and four malaria patients (0.56%) were confirmed with immuno-chromatography and microscopic slide tests. We identified dengue cases throughout the year from rural (49%) and urban areas (51%). We followed-up 55 accessible dengue-infected patients two months after their initial enrollment: 45 (82%) patients had fully recovered, 9 (16%) reported ongoing jaundice, fever and/or joint pain, and one died. Dengue infection is widespread across Bangladesh, but malaria is sufficiently uncommon that it should not be assumed as the cause of fever without laboratory confirmation.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Map of Bangladesh showing distribution of dengue and malaria cases. GFATM = Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Surveillance hospitals: Rajshahi Medical College Hospital; Khulna Medical College Hospital; Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital; Kishoreganj Jahurul Islam Medical College Hospital; Chittagong Bangabandhu Memorial Hospital; and Sylhet Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College Hospital.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Monthly distribution of malaria and dengue cases, Bangladesh.
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