Abstract

MACIAS MIRANDA, Cecilia Dolores; GAMEZ SANCHEZ, Donelia; RODRIGUEZ VALDES, Adriana  and  BAQUERO SUAREZ, Jacqueline. Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of dengue epidemic in Santiago de Cuba municipality. MEDISAN [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.8, pp. 3042-3048. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and cross-sectional study of 13 147 patients from Santiago de Cuba municipality was carried out, in order to characterize the dengue epidemic from the clinical and epidemiological point of view, which affected this municipality from 2006 to 2007, for this purpose a multidisciplinary team was formed by epidemiologists, clinical doctors, pediatricians and gyneco-obstetricians. Cases were characterized according to variables of clinical and epidemiological interest. Female sex (50.6%) in those under 15 years (92.3%), the clinical classical form of dengue (98.6%) and July-August-September as the months of higher notification of cases. Morbimortality was known in a population susceptible to a previously non identified new serotype and it was shown that the secondary infection in the younger population was not enough to produce the hemorrhagic forms of this disease; therefore, it was recommended to maintain close control on the travellers coming from endemic areas and with high vectorial indexes.

Keywords : epidemic; dengue; morbimortality; endemic area; vectorial index; Santiago de Cuba.

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