Objective: This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of leptospirosis among febrile patients with a suspicious clinical diagnosis of dengue fever in northern Peru. Results: A total of 276 serum samples from patients with acute febrile illness (AFI) and suspected diagnosis for dengue virus (DENV) were analyzed. We identified an etiological agent in 121 (47.5%) patients, DENV was detected in 30.4% of the cases, leptospirosis in 11.2% and co-infection by both pathogens was observed in 5.9% of the patients. In this study the most common clinical symptoms reported by the patients were: headache 89.1%, myalgias 86.9% and arthralgias 82.9%. No differences in symptomatology was observed among the different study groups.
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del Valle-Mendoza, J., Palomares-Reyes, C., Carrillo-Ng, H., Tarazona-Castro, Y., Kym, S., Aguilar-Luis, M. A., … Silva-Caso, W. (2021). Leptospirosis in febrile patients with suspected diagnosis of dengue fever. BMC Research Notes, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05627-3
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