Dengue and COVID-19: Managing Undifferentiated Febrile Illness during a "Twindemic".

Liang En WeeEdwin Philip ConceicaoJean Xiang-Ying SimMay Kyawt AungAung Myat OoYang YongShalvi AroraIndumathi Venkatachalam

Published in: Tropical medicine and infectious disease (2022)

During successive COVID-19 pandemic waves in a dengue-endemic country, coinfection with dengue and COVID-19 was uncommon. Routine COVID-19 testing for febrile patients with viral prodromes mitigated the potential infection-prevention risk from COVID-19 cases, albeit with an increased length-of-stay for dengue hospitalizations admitted initially to isolation.

Keyphrases

sars cov
coronavirus disease
zika virus
aedes aegypti
dengue virus
respiratory syndrome coronavirus
urinary tract infection
human health