UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and ImmunologyCenter for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research
Document Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
1999-04-25Keywords
ImmunityImmunology and Infectious Disease
Immunology of Infectious Disease
Infectious Disease
Virology
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Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is an acute, potentially life-threatening, capillary leak syndrome caused by the dengue viruses, a group of four antigenically related flaviviruses designated serotypes 1 through 4. First recognized in Southeast Asia in the 1950s, DHF has become a significant public health problem in many countries in tropical and subtropical areas of Asia, the Pacific Rim, and the Americas. In contrast, classical dengue fever, an acute, self-limited febrile illness often called “breakbone fever,” was well recognized before the year 1800. How the same viruses can produce such disparate clinical outcomes has been an area of intense study.Source
Virology. 1999 Apr 25;257(1):1-6. Link to article on publisher's siteDOI
10.1006/viro.1999.9656Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/35082PubMed ID
10208914Related Resources
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10.1006/viro.1999.9656