Concomitant dengue fever in Varicella zoster infection – a rare presentation

Varicella zoster infection is one of the self-limiting viral infections during childhood and dengue fever is an endemic infection in Malaysia, which commonly occurs in the form of nonspecific febrile illness at the initial stage. It is rare for the two viral infections to occur simultaneously. A...

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Main Authors:	Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan, Ahmad Radzi, Mohd Ashrafuddin, Osman, Iskandar Firzada
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Published:	Malaysian Medical Association 2019
Subjects:	R Medicine (General) RA Public aspects of medicine RC Internal medicine RL Dermatology
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spelling	iium-740012020-01-08T00:58:20Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/74001/ Concomitant dengue fever in Varicella zoster infection – a rare presentation Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan Ahmad Radzi, Mohd Ashrafuddin Osman, Iskandar Firzada R Medicine (General) RA Public aspects of medicine RC Internal medicine RL Dermatology Varicella zoster infection is one of the self-limiting viral infections during childhood and dengue fever is an endemic infection in Malaysia, which commonly occurs in the form of nonspecific febrile illness at the initial stage. It is rare for the two viral infections to occur simultaneously. A case of dengue fever without warning sign in a five-year old girl was reported, with early symptoms of fever and vesicular rashes. She was clinically diagnosed with varicella zoster infection during the first visit. Surprisingly, she remained febrile even on day six of illness despite no new vesicular lesions on her skin. Due to suspicion of another infection, follow-up investigation was done and revealed isolated thrombocytopenia. This finding was confirmed with positive NS1Ag. A case of rare dengue fever concomitant with varicella zoster infection was reported. Malaysian Medical Association 2019-08 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/74001/7/74001%20Concomitant%20dengue%20fever.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/74001/8/74001%20Concomitant%20dengue%20fever%20SCOPUS.pdf Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan and Ahmad Radzi, Mohd Ashrafuddin and Osman, Iskandar Firzada (2019) Concomitant dengue fever in Varicella zoster infection – a rare presentation. Medical Journal of Malaysia, 74 (4). pp. 347-348. ISSN 0300-5283 http://www.e-mjm.org/2019/v74n4/varicella-zoster-infection.pdf
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spellingShingle	R Medicine (General) RA Public aspects of medicine RC Internal medicine RL Dermatology Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan Ahmad Radzi, Mohd Ashrafuddin Osman, Iskandar Firzada Concomitant dengue fever in Varicella zoster infection – a rare presentation
description	Varicella zoster infection is one of the self-limiting viral infections during childhood and dengue fever is an endemic infection in Malaysia, which commonly occurs in the form of nonspecific febrile illness at the initial stage. It is rare for the two viral infections to occur simultaneously. A case of dengue fever without warning sign in a five-year old girl was reported, with early symptoms of fever and vesicular rashes. She was clinically diagnosed with varicella zoster infection during the first visit. Surprisingly, she remained febrile even on day six of illness despite no new vesicular lesions on her skin. Due to suspicion of another infection, follow-up investigation was done and revealed isolated thrombocytopenia. This finding was confirmed with positive NS1Ag. A case of rare dengue fever concomitant with varicella zoster infection was reported.
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author	Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan Ahmad Radzi, Mohd Ashrafuddin Osman, Iskandar Firzada
author_facet	Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan Ahmad Radzi, Mohd Ashrafuddin Osman, Iskandar Firzada
author_sort	Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan
title	Concomitant dengue fever in Varicella zoster infection – a rare presentation
title_short	Concomitant dengue fever in Varicella zoster infection – a rare presentation
title_full	Concomitant dengue fever in Varicella zoster infection – a rare presentation
title_fullStr	Concomitant dengue fever in Varicella zoster infection – a rare presentation
title_full_unstemmed	Concomitant dengue fever in Varicella zoster infection – a rare presentation
title_sort	concomitant dengue fever in varicella zoster infection – a rare presentation
publisher	Malaysian Medical Association
publishDate	2019
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/74001/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/74001/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/74001/7/74001%20Concomitant%20dengue%20fever.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/74001/8/74001%20Concomitant%20dengue%20fever%20SCOPUS.pdf
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Concomitant dengue fever in Varicella zoster infection – a rare presentation

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