Dengue Fever: Review with insight into Pathogenesis and suggested Treatment with Prevention

Authors

  • Ejaz Rafique Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), University of Lahore, Defense Road, Lahore, Pakistan
  • Sardar Waleed Babar Department of Oral Pathology, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Adnan Sunny Department of Prosthodontics, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Areesha Ahsan Department of Prosthodontics, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Farwa Zaheer Department of General Pathology, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Sadia Minhas Department of Oral Pathology, Akhter Saeed Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Pakistan
  • Ejaz Ahmed Department of Community Medicine, Rahbar Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Pakistan
  • Muhammad Irshad Farooq 7. Graduate school of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Natural medicine, University of Toyama, Toyama 930-0194, Japan.

Abstract

Dengue is a chronic viral infectious disease. The disease has been common and prevalent throughout the world with affecting and having major outbreaks in more than a 100 countries. It is a positive sense, RNA virus. There are number of clinical features which are manifested in patients depending on their age and living circumstances that range from being an asymptomatic illness to a severe symptomatic disease that could prove to be hazardous and life-threatening. Though there are a number of methods which are used for the identification of the virus, but the serological methods are considered to be the most effective and accurate tests for the identification of the infecting serotype and later on for the conformation and diagnosis of the disease. Serological tests used are: Complement Fixation test, Hemagglutination Inhibition test, Neutralization test, and ELISA. Though there are a number of drugs prescribed by the physician for the suppression of symptoms and also a vaccine for dengue has also been licensed.

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2024-03-31

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Rafique, E., Babar, S. W., Sunny, A., Ahsan, A., Zaheer, F., Minhas, S., Ahmed, E., & Farooq, M. I. (2024). Dengue Fever: Review with insight into Pathogenesis and suggested Treatment with Prevention. International Journal of Natural Medicine and Health Sciences, 3(2), 13–19. Retrieved from https://journals.iub.edu.pk/index.php/ijnms/article/view/2021

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Vol. 3 No. 2 (2024): International Journal of Natural Medicine and Health Sciences

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