DISEASES CAUSED BY ARBOVIRUSES - DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC-FEVER AND JAPANESE B-ENCEPHALITIS

Authors
THISYAKORN U THISYAKORN C
Citation
U. Thisyakorn et C. Thisyakorn, DISEASES CAUSED BY ARBOVIRUSES - DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC-FEVER AND JAPANESE B-ENCEPHALITIS, Medical journal of Australia, 160(1), 1994, pp. 22-26
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Medical journal of Australia → ACNP
ISSN journal
0025729X
Volume
160
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
22 - 26
Database
ISI
SICI code
0025-729X(1994)160:1<22:DCBA-D>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
Dengue haemorrhagic fever is a recent and more serious variant of deng ue infection, causing significant mortality in children under 14 years of age in South-East Asia and the Western Pacific regions. Successful treatment depends on early recognition of the disease and careful mon itoring of the development of shock. Japanese B encephalitis has a cas e fatality rate of 10%-30% in these regions, but may be controlled by vaccination.