McBride J H
Cairns Base Hospital, Queensland.
Aust Fam Physician. 1999 Apr;28(4):319-23.
An estimated 2.5 billion people live in areas where dengue fever is endemic with around 100 million cases per year. A more serious form of the disease called dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) is the most common cause of hospitalisation and death among children in some Southeast Asian countries.
This article reviews the ecology and the pathogenesis of the disease and its clinical features. The history of dengue fever in Australia will be presented and the prospects for the future discussed.
Dengue fever was common in Australia in the late 19th century and the first clinical description of DHF were published by an Australian clinician in Charters Towers north Queensland. Since that time there have been sporadic outbreaks of dengue fever. In recent years there has been an increase in the number of epidemics in north Queensland. If Australia follows a pattern observed elsewhere in the world there might again be cases of DHF recorded on Australian soil.
据估计，有25亿人生活在登革热流行地区，每年约有1亿病例。一种更严重的疾病形式，称为登革出血热（DHF），是一些东南亚国家儿童住院和死亡的最常见原因。
本文回顾了该疾病的生态学、发病机制及其临床特征。将介绍澳大利亚登革热的历史，并讨论其未来前景。
登革热在19世纪后期的澳大利亚很常见，澳大利亚一名临床医生在昆士兰州北部的查特斯堡首次发表了对登革出血热的临床描述。从那时起，登革热就有零星爆发。近年来，昆士兰州北部的疫情数量有所增加。如果澳大利亚遵循世界其他地方观察到的模式，澳大利亚本土可能会再次记录到登革出血热病例。
