(n.) A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.
Example Sentences:
(1) On land, the pits' stagnant pools of water become breeding grounds for dengue fever and malaria.
(2) The immunofluorescent method is rapid and simple, and is recommended for routine detection of serum antibody in dengue hemorrhagic fever.
(3) Dengue infections were prospectively studied among 4- to 16-year-old students at a Bangkok school.
(4) Vero type E 6 cell cultures were used to isolate six strains of Dengue 2 virus; monoclonal antibodies were used for viral identification.
(5) In Brazil, although we have identified the Zika virus , we don’t know much about it compared with dengue or yellow fever.
(6) Male Aedes albopictus experimentally infected with dengue virus types 1, 2, 3, or 4 transmitted their infection sexually to female Ae.
(7) The antibody response against flaviviruses tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE), West Nile fever (WNF), Japanese B encephalitis (JE), dengue 2 (DEN-2), and yellow fever (YF) was studied in humans after administration of an inactivated TBE virus vaccine.
(8) During the dengue outbreak which occurred in Reunion Island, one dengue type 2 strain was isolated at Institute Pasteur in Madagascar.
(9) In 1981 an epidemic of dengue haemorrhagic fever occurred in Cuba and this suggests that there is a high risk that such epidemics could recur in the region.
(10) Dengue hemorrhagic fever, a severe manifestation associated with secondary infection, most often occurs in children.
(11) Patients with primary dengue infection developed dengue 2 virus (D2V) permissive peripheral blood leukocytes (PBL) 2--3 weeks after infection.
(12) Of these, 18 patients suffered clinically from dengue fever, 21 patients had positive dengue fever history in their family members, 21 patients had positive history in their neighbors.
(13) By the direct immunofluorescent technic, dengue antigen, human immunoglobulins, and beta 1C globulin were detectable on the surfaces of platelet suspensions from 48% of patients with dengue hemorrhagic fever.
(14) We have now characterized in vivo Th-cell priming activity of one of these peptides (MVE 17, amino acids 356 to 376) and an analogous peptide derived from the E-glycoprotein sequence of the dengue (DEN) 2, Jamaica strain (DEN 17, amino acids 352 to 368).
(15) In rabbit endothelium, dengue-2 virus passaged through monkey kidney monolayer cells (LLC-MK2) or human lymphoblastoid cells (raji) produced significantly more virus than the seed obtained from suckling mouse brain (MB).
(16) Antibodies to the dengue virus in the dengue infected mother can cross the placenta and transfer to the fetus, which can cause new born infants to develop dengue hemorrhagic fever or dengue shock syndrome easily when they are primarily infected with dengue virus.
(17) Cell monolayers persistently infected with JE-Bei or monolayers treated with UV-inactivated JE-Bei, were resistant to superinfection with JE, West Nile and dengue 2 viruses but were susceptible to infection with the alphavirus Sindbis.
(18) Titres of haemagglutination inhibition (HI) antibodies against dengue virus type 2 were raised in all the 15 cases from whom sera were collected during the acute stage.
(19) Anti-dengue activity in human milk did not decrease over a period of ten months after delivery.
(20) Reported dengue activity in Puerto Rico (PR) increased in 1990 for the fourth consecutive year.
Headache
Definition:
(n.) Pain in the head; cephalalgia.
Example Sentences:
(1) The main result of the correspondence analysis is a geometric map of this relationship showing how the relative frequencies of headache types change with age.
(2) She had three attacks of severe migrainous headache accompanied with nausea and vomiting within three weeks.
(3) In contrast, in those subjects with chronic non-migrainous headache, the administration of piribedil had no effect.
(4) The vasodilator effect of both calcium antagonists was responsible for side effects, of which the most common were flushing, edema, headache, and palpitations.
(5) A 68-year-old male was hospitalized because of headache, nausea, and disturbance of consciousness.
(6) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
(7) Case 3 was that of a 70-year-old female with left impaired vision and frontal headache.
(8) After the fourth dose of L-asparaginase, he presented with severe headache and a CT scan showed a right temporal infarct.
(9) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
(10) Both the use of analgesics and the frequency of headache showed a significant increase for patients with post-traumatic headache when compared with a "control group" of 41 patients with unchanged headache and when compared with all patients with headache before the trauma.
(11) Pheochromocytoma may present without the typical features of paroxysmal or sustained hypertension, headache, increased sweating, and palpitations.
(12) These data suggest that the mechanism leading to a migraine attack can be operative 8-48 h before the headache begins and is possibly dopaminergically mediated.
(13) We found that, compared with younger patients, older headache patients had more tension headache and less migraine headache.
(14) The levels of E-type prostaglandins were measured in patients with facial and headaches.
(15) A 26-year-old man addicted to alcohol was admitted to hospital with headache and rhinorrhoea.
(16) --The frequency of common clinical manifestations (eg, headache, fever, and rash) and laboratory findings (eg, leukocyte and platelet counts and serum chemistry abnormalities) of patients with infectious diseases was tabulated.
(17) Childhood headache attacks resulted to be less frequent, less severe and with a shorter duration than in adult patients.
(18) Headache and vertigo were not linked with exposure to vibration in forestry and a significant part of the numbness reported may be due to the carpal tunnel syndrome.
(19) Headache, vegetative und neurological symptoms are frequent but not necessary companions.
(20) Furthermore, 97.6%, 95.7% and 94.8% of the subjects reported that depression, headache and sleep disturbances, respectively, had disappeared during therapy.