Arboviral Causes of Non-Specific Fever and Myalgia in a Fever Hospital Patient Population in Cairo, Egypt

Abstract

Fever and myalgia are non-specific clinical manifestations of illness which commonly occur in patients with arboviral disease. In Egypt, such illness is often mis-diagnosed as 'influenza.' To determine arboviral aetiology in patients admitted with fever and myalgia, acute and convalescent sera samples were obtained from 55 patients admitted with these clinical manifestations to the Imbaba Fever Hospital, Giza, Egypt, during October and November 1984. Based on viral isolation, and a comparison of acute and convalescent sera, 4 patients (7%) had acute arboviral infections. Haemagglutination inhibition and indirect immunofluorescence tests showed that one had West Nile virus (WNV) infection, 2 had sandfly fever virus-Naples (SFN), and 1 had sandfly fever virus-Sicilian (SFS) infection. SFN was isolated from the acute serum sample of 1 of the 2 patients with SFN infection. Reprints.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA206937

Entities

People

  • Boulos A. Botros
  • Fred M. Feinsod
  • Medhat A. Darwish
  • Robert Mcn Scott
  • Thomas G. Ksiazek

Organizations

  • Naval Medical Research Unit Three

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Antibodies
  • Arboviruses
  • Biomedical Research
  • Cell Line
  • Classification
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Health
  • Health Services
  • Medical Personnel
  • New York
  • Pain
  • Phlebotomus Fever
  • Public Health
  • Rift Valley Fever
  • Security
  • Tropical Medicine
  • Viruses

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Infectious Disease/Epidemiology
  • Virology (or Medical Virology).