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Dengue fever    See images

Overview | Symptoms | Treatment | Prevention

Alternative names:

West Nile fever; O'nyong-nyong fever; Dengue-like disease; Breakbone fever

Symptoms

Signs and Tests

  • CBC (shows mildly increased white blood cells, decreased platelets, and increase in hematocrit)
  • acute and convalescent serum (measures an increase in antibody titer for dengue virus types)
  • serologic studies (demonstrates antibodies to dengue viruses, may be type-specific)

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