Figueredo MS, Amâncio TA, Salvatierra JA, de Brito BB, da Silva FAF, Queiroz DMM, de Melo FF. COVID-19 and dengue coinfection in Brazil. World J Clin Infect Dis 2020; 10(4): 51-54 [DOI: 10.5495/wjcid.v10.i4.51]
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Fabrício Freire de Melo, PhD, Postdoc, Professor, Instituto Multidisciplinar em Saúde, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Rua Hormindo Barros, 58, Quadra 17, Lote 58, Vitória da Conquista 45029-094, Bahia, Brazil. freiremelo@yahoo.com.br
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Infectious Diseases
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Letter to the Editor
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World J Clin Infect Dis. Oct 28, 2020; 10(4): 51-54 Published online Oct 28, 2020. doi: 10.5495/wjcid.v10.i4.51
COVID-19 and dengue coinfection in Brazil
Millena Santos Figueredo, Taise de Alcântara Amâncio, Jaime Arandia Salvatierra, Breno Bittencourt de Brito, Filipe Antônio França da Silva, Dulciene Maria de Magalhães Queiroz, Fabrício Freire de Melo
Millena Santos Figueredo, Taise de Alcântara Amâncio, Jaime Arandia Salvatierra, City Hall of Vitória da Conquista, City Hall of Vitória da Conquista, Vitória da Conquista 45000-907, Bahia, Brazil
Breno Bittencourt de Brito, Filipe Antônio França da Silva, Fabrício Freire de Melo, Instituto Multidisciplinar em Saúde, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Vitória da Conquista 45029-094, Bahia, Brazil
Dulciene Maria de Magalhães Queiroz, Laboratory of Research in Bacteriology, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte 30130-100, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Author contributions: Figueredo MS, Amâncio TA, Salvatierra JA, de Brito BB, da Silva FAF, Queiroz DMM, and de Melo FF equally contributed to this work.
Conflict-of-interest statement: There is no conflict of interest associated with any of the authors who contributed their efforts in this manuscript
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Fabrício Freire de Melo, PhD, Postdoc, Professor, Instituto Multidisciplinar em Saúde, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Rua Hormindo Barros, 58, Quadra 17, Lote 58, Vitória da Conquista 45029-094, Bahia, Brazil. freiremelo@yahoo.com.br
Received: May 29, 2020 Peer-review started: May 29, 2020 First decision: August 23, 2020 Revised: September 5, 2020 Accepted: September 14, 2020 Article in press: September 14, 2020 Published online: October 28, 2020 Processing time: 151 Days and 19.5 Hours
Abstract
The case we present here is a man who lives in a dengue-endemic area. Initially, the patient was diagnosed with dengue fever by clinical evaluation and laboratorial confirmation. Subsequently, he presented respiratory symptoms, and a concomitant severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection was confirmed. He was hospitalized for 17 d and had a satisfactory recovery.
Core Tip: Corona virus disease 2019 represents a big concern for public health. Simultaneously, many countries are also being affected by arbovirus epidemics, which overwhelms the health assistance services from those localities. That scenario calls attention to how these epidemics will affect the health of people living in those geographic areas. In this Letter to the Editor, we report a coinfection by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and dengue virus that occurred in northeastern Brazil.
