Fatal dengue in patients with sickle cell disease or sickle cell anemia in Curaçao: two case reports

Fleur M Moesker; Fred D Muskiet; Jeanne J Koeijers; Pieter L A Fraaij; Isaac Gerstenbluth; Eric C M van Gorp; Albert D M E Osterhaus

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0002203

Fatal dengue in patients with sickle cell disease or sickle cell anemia in Curaçao: two case reports

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2013 Aug 8;7(8):e2203. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002203. eCollection 2013.

Authors

Fleur M Moesker¹, Fred D Muskiet, Jeanne J Koeijers, Pieter L A Fraaij, Isaac Gerstenbluth, Eric C M van Gorp, Albert D M E Osterhaus

Affiliation

¹ Department of Viroscience Lab, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Anemia, Sickle Cell / complications*
Anemia, Sickle Cell / diagnosis*
Child
Dengue / diagnosis*
Dengue / mortality
Dengue / pathology*
Fatal Outcome
Female
Humans
Young Adult

Grants and funding

The work was funded by the Erasmus MC Rotterdam and by the Dutch government (project number FES0908). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.