Microbiology & infectious diseases
Viruses
Dengue fever
Author: Dragos C. Luca, M.D.
Last author update: 1 March 2014
Last staff update: 21 March 2021
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Definition / general | Clinical presentation and diagnosis | Case reports | Treatment | Clinical images | Microscopic (histologic) description | Microscopic (histologic) images | Electron microscopy images | Additional referencesCite this page: Luca DC. Dengue fever. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/microbiologydenguefever.html. Accessed April 23rd, 2024.
Definition / general
- Transmitted by Stegomyia aegypti (formerly Aedes aegypti) mosquito (Wikipedia: Aedes aegypti Biting Human [Image])
- Causes bone marrow suppression, DIC and thrombopathy (Baillieres Best Pract Res Clin Haematol 2000;13:261)
- Also known as "breakbone" fever
Clinical presentation and diagnosis
- Characteristic skin rash similar to measles
- Fever, headache, muscle and joint pain
- Rarely presents with life threatening hemorrhagic fever
- Leukopenia, lymphocytosis with atypical lymphocytes in peripheral blood
- Confirmation by serology or PCR
Case reports
- Patient with hemoglobin H disease and acute myeloid leukemia precipitated by dengue virus infection (Haematologica 2001;86:E17)
Treatment
- Usually supportive (oral rehydration, intravenous fluids, etc.)
Clinical images
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Typical rash of dengue fever
Aedes aegypti
Microscopic (histologic) description
- Bone marrow hypoplasia or hyperplasia
- Megakaryocytic hypoplasia with thrombocytopenia as the most common hematologic manifestation
- Occasional extreme plasmacytosis (Arch Pathol Lab Med 2003;127:1026)
- Hemophagocytosis and dysplastic changes (Kaohsiung J Med Sci 2005;21:34)
Microscopic (histologic) images
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Hemophagocytosis
Stars indicate erythrocytes phagocytized by a macrophage
Electron microscopy images
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Dengue virus virions
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