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Undifferentiated Fever
- May be the most common manifestation of dengue
- Prospective study found that 87% of students infected were either asymptomatic or only mildly symptomatic
- Other prospective studies including all age-groups also demonstrate silent transmission
Source: DS Burke, et al. A prospective study of dengue infections
in Bangkok. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1988; 38:172-80.
| Undifferentiated fever may be the most common manifestation
of dengue. A prospective study of dengue infections in 4- to
16-year-old students in Bangkok, Thailand, found that most students
who became infected by dengue virus—90 out of 103, or 87%—were
either asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic, and were absent
from school only one day. Other prospective studies—including
all age-groups—have also demonstrated this type of "silent"
dengue transmission. |
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