Demographic and clinical features of dengue fever in Pakistan from 2003-2007: A retrospective cross- sectional study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1-7

  Khan, Erum ^a   Kisat, Mehreen ^a   Khan, Nabil ^a   Nasir, Amna ^a   Ayub, Salma ^a   Hasan, Rumina ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLEEDING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DENGUE; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FEVER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEADACHE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCYTOSIS; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; PAKISTAN; RASH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; CHILD; DENGUE VIRUS; HOSPITALIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEASON; VIROLOGY;

DENGUE VIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958568882     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012505     Document Type: Article

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