title: [Clinical features of dengue fever in children during the outbreak in Santiago de Cuba].
abstract: A study of the dengue outbreak occurred from January to November 1997 in Santiago de Cuba municipality was performed to characterize the clinical picture of the patients. The sample was taken from those patients presenting with clinical and epidemiological elements and positive IgM determination serological test. Seventy-seven patients were confirmed as having dengue virus 2 infection whose clinical-humoral characteristic was dengue fever predominantly present in school boys. The clinical picture was given by fever headache, retrorbitary pain, osteomioarticular pain as the most common symptom and by exanthema as a prevailing sign. Most of bleedings occurred on the 2nd day and the most frequent hemorrhagic manifestation was positive tourniquet test.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Infantil Sur Docente, Santiago de Cuba.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Vargas Caballero
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Aguirre Portuondo
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Palacios Serrano
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003462:Cuba / Q000453:epidemiology; D003715:Dengue / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male