Abstract

BELL SANTOS, Héctor  and  ODUARDO PEREZ, Orialys. Clinical and epidemiological characterization of Cuban collaborators with dengue in the Venezuelan municipality of Bolívar. MEDISAN [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.1, pp.26-31. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and retrospective study of 18 Cuban collaborators diagnosed with dengue in the Venezuelan municipality of Bolívar was carried out from May, 2008 to the same period of 2011, with the aim of characterizing them according to clinical and epidemiological variables of interest, among which there were: age, sex and clinical symptoms. For the prosessing and analysis of the results, the statistical package Epi Info was used (version 6.04). In the series the age group 42-52 years (38.9%), the male sex (66.7%) prevailed; while fever (100,0%), the retroorbitary pain, the ocular movements (83.3%) and the artralgias with myalgia (77.8%) were the most frequent clinical symptoms. The favorable clinical course in most of the patients showed the necessity of an epidemiological control of this disorder to decrease its incidence among the Cuban collaborators abroad

Keywords : dengue; fever; retroorbitary pain; ocular movement; Bolívar municipality; Venezuela.

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