detection of hepatitis c virus coinfection in patients with dengue diagnosis
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Coinfection produced by dengue virus (DENV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a serious problem of public health in Mexico, as they both circulate in tropical zones and may lead to masking or complicating symptoms. In this research, we detected active coinfected patients by HCV residing in the endemic city of Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, with positive diagnosis to dengue during the acute phase. We performed a retrospective analysis of 240 serum samples from dengue patients. The IgM-ELISA serological test was used for dengue diagnosis, as well as viral isolation to confirm infection. DENV and HCV were detected by RT-PCR. Thus, 31 (12.9%) samples showed DENV-HCV coinfection, but interestingly the highest frequency of coinfection cases was found in male patients presenting hemorrhagic dengue in 19/31 (61.29%), with a predominance of 12 : 7 in males. Firstly, coinfection of DENV-HCV in Mérida, Mexico, was detected in young dengue patients, between 11 and 20 years old (38.7%), followed by those between 21 and 30 years old (32%); only 16.13% were between 0 and 10 years of age. Diagnosis of HCV infection in patients with dengue is highly recommended in order to establish potential risk in clinical manifestations as well as dictate patients' special care.
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| Authors | ;Carlos Machain-Williams;Lourdes Talavera-Aguilar;Rosa Carmina Cetina-Trejo;Jaquelin Carrillo-Navarrete;Nubia Rivero-Cárdenas;Ma. Isabel Salazar;José Arturo Farfán-Ale;Fernando I. Puerto;María Eugenia Castro-Mussot |
| Journal | spectrochimica acta - part a: molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy |
| Year | 2014 |
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