Title:
Co-infection of dengue and COVID-19: A case report
Authors:
Morgane Verduyn, Nathalie Allou,Virgile Gazaille, Michel Andre, Tannvir Desroche, Marie-Christine Jaffar, Nicolas Traversier, Cecile Levin, Marie Lagrange-Xelot, Marie-Pierre Moiton & Stella Hoang
Published:
PLOS, 3 August 2020
From the article:
Dengue and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) may share clinical and laboratory features.
Reunion Island is a French overseas department located in the Indian Ocean with a population of more than 850,000 inhabitants. Due to its tropical climate, Reunion Island is at risk of arbovirus outbreaks. An increase in the number of dengue cases has been reported on the island since the beginning of 2018, with 3 different serotypes circulating mostly in austral summer. According to the last epidemiological report of March 30, 2020 from Santé Publique France, 3,144 new cases of dengue have been diagnosed since the beginning of 2020 in Reunion Island [1]. On March 2020, the first COVID-19 cases were imported to the island from metropolitan France by airplane.