Keywords
Dengue
Dengue haemorrhagic fever
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Abstract
Dengue is an arbovirus infection considered among the priorities in the world and, as a serious public health problem with increasing number of cases each year, led us to decide to carry out a study to describe the epidemiological profile of the disease in the city of Teresina. During the period comprised between January, 2003 and December, 2007 10.000 cases of classic dengue were reported, with peaks in 2003 and 2006, with the latter year registering the highest number of cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever. The disease in the classic form predominated in the age group 20 to 39 years and, in the haemorrhagic form, reached a considerable number of children between 5 and 9 years. Females were more affected in both forms of dengue. The prevalence of the disease was significant in the period studied, being 2004 the year in which the disease was most bland, with no notification of the hemorrhagic form, which was observed in post-epidemic periods of the disease.
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