Dengue fever outbreak: A clinical management experience

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 8-12

  Ahmed, Shahid ^a   Ali, Nadir ^a   Ashraf, Shahzad ^a   Ilyas, Mohammad ^a   Tariq, Waheed Uz Zaman ^b   Chotani, Rashid A ^c  

^a Malir National University of Medical Sciences   (Pakistan)

^b ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^c US Department of Defence   (United States)

Author keywords

Dengue fever (DF); Dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF); Dengue shock syndrome (DSS); Management

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING DISORDER; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CHILL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYALGIA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAKISTAN; PATIENT SELECTION; PHARYNGITIS; RIGOR; SPLENOMEGALY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN;

EID: 41049088025     PISSN: 1022386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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