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TO STUDY CLINICAL PROFILE OF SEROLOGICALLY PROVEN DENGUE FEVER
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Dengue Fever, known commonly as Break bone fever is the most common Arboviral mosquito borne disease in the world. Many countries especially the countries of the Indian subcontinent have suffered at the hands of this disease. Epidemiology of Dengue Fever in Indian subcontinent is very complex. It has changed over the last few years with regard to the strains, affected regions and disease severity. Dengue has a varied and wide spectrum of clinical presentations, often with unpredictable clinical evolution and outcome. In the Department of Medicine with collaborationof other departments such as Departments of Biochemistry, Microbiology, Pathology, Radiology, Hospital based cross sectional Observational study and approval of the Institutional Ethical Committee with observation of inclusion and exclusion criteria‘s, complete history, signs,symptoms and laboratory data were taken in to account as per the Proforma in the sample size of 251 cases for a period of one year. The present study is an observational study where we studied the clinical profile of 251 serologically proven dengue patients admitted in the Department of Medicine and Pathology Kasturba Medical College Mangaluru .The study had revealed much observation that concurred with traditional teaching about dengue; there were other findings that were peculiar to this epidemicddd