Srinivasaraghavan Rangan, Narayanan Parameswaran, Kanimozhi Thandapani
Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India.
J Infect Dev Ctries. 2015 Sep 27;9(9):1033-5. doi: 10.3855/jidc.5230.
Infectious diseases are one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Sometimes concurrent infections with multiple infectious agents may occur in one patient, which make the diagnosis and management a challenging task. The authors here present a case of co-infection of typhoid fever with dengue fever in a ten-year-old child and discuss the pertinent issues. The authors emphasize that the risk factors predicting the presence of such co-infections, if developed, will be immensely useful in areas where dengue outbreak occurs in the background of high transmission of endemic infections.
传染病是发展中国家发病和死亡的主要原因之一。有时,一名患者可能同时感染多种病原体,这使得诊断和治疗成为一项具有挑战性的任务。本文作者介绍了一名10岁儿童伤寒热与登革热合并感染的病例,并讨论了相关问题。作者强调,如果能够确定预测此类合并感染存在的风险因素,将对在地方性感染高传播背景下发生登革热疫情的地区非常有用。