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Dengue virus infection, which is the cause of mortality across various regions of the globe, can be caused by any of the four recognized serotypes (DENV 1-4). The infection can range from dengue fever to severe and life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF)/dengue shock syndrome (DSS). There has been a great deal of research to understand the...
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... related and biologically similar. (Guzman & Harris, 2015) Symptomatic dengue virus infection has been classified into dengue fever (DF), dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) and dengue shock syndrome (DSS) ("WHO | Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever: Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention and Control. 2nd Edition. Geneva/: World Health Organization.," 2015) (Fig. 1). Dengue fever is characterized by the rapid onset of fever along with severe headache, retroorbital pain, muscular pain (myalgia), joint pain (arthralgia), gastrointestinal discomfort, rash and possible minor hemorrhagic manifestations in the form of petechiae, epistaxis, and gingival bleeding whereas dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) is ...
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