ArticlePLoS neglected tropical diseases2021
Enhanced passive surveillance dengue infection among febrile children: Prevalence, co-infections and associated factors in Cameroon.
Article in PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Viral and host determinants of arboviral disease severity in African populations: A systematic review with meta-analysis.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Pooled it
- Worldwide distribution, symptoms and diagnosis of the coinfections between malaria and arboviral diseases: a systematic review.Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz · 2024Pooled it
- Increasing prevalence of malaria and acute dengue virus coinfection in Africa: a meta-analysis and meta-regression of cross-sectional studies.Malaria journal · 2023Pooled it
- A decade of dengue disease burden in Africa (2013-2023): a systematic review.Travel medicine and infectious diseasePooled it
- Prevalence of dengue virus among febrile patients in urban setting of Bamako, Mali.IJID regions · 2025Article
- Molecular surveillance for dengue serotypes among the population living in Moyen-Ogooué province, Gabon; evidence of the presence of dengue serotype 1.Virology journal · 2024Article
- Whole genome sequencing of outbreak strains from 2017 to 2018 reveals an endemic clade of dengue 1 virus in Cameroon.Emerging microbes & infections · 2023Article
- Prevalence of malaria and dengue co-infections among febrile patients during dengue transmission season in Kassala, eastern Sudan.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2023Article
- Burden of mosquito-borne diseases across rural versus urban areas in Cameroon between 2002 and 2021: prospective for community-oriented vector management approaches.Parasites & vectors · 2023Review
- Arboviruses as an unappreciated cause of non-malarial acute febrile illness in the Dschang Health District of western Cameroon.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- The epidemiology and disease burden of children hospitalized for viral infections within the family Flaviviridae in China: A national cross-sectional study.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- The asymmetric nexus between air pollution and COVID-19: Evidence from a non-linear panel autoregressive distributed lag model.Environmental research · 2022Article
- Dengue and Chikungunya virus circulation in Cameroon and Gabon: molecular evidence among symptomatic individuals.Access microbiology · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Dengue virus (DENV) causes a spectrum of diseases ranging from asymptomatic, mild febrile to a life-threatening illness: dengue hemorrhagic fever. The main clinical symptom of dengue is fever, similar to that of malaria. The prevalence of dengue virus infection, alone or in association with other endemic infectious diseases in children in Cameroon is unknown. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of dengue, malaria and HIV in children presenting with fever and associated risk factors. Dengue overall prevalence was 20.2%, Malaria cases were 52.7% and HIV cases represented 12.6%. The prevalence of dengue-HIV co-infection was 6.0% and that of Malaria-dengue co-infection was 19.5%. Triple infection prevalence was 4.3%. Dengue virus infection is present in children and HIV-Dengue or Dengue- Malaria co-infections are common. Dengue peak prevalence was between August and October. Sex and age were not associated with dengue and dengue co-infections. However, malaria as well as HIV were significantly associated with dengue (P = 0.001 and 0.028 respectively). The diagnosis of dengue and Malaria should be carried out routinely for better management of fever.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.