Concomitant dengue fever in Varicella zoster infection – a rare presentation

• Main Authors: Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan, Ahmad Radzi, Mohd Ashrafuddin, Osman, Iskandar Firzada
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Malaysian Medical Association 2019
• Subjects: R Medicine (General); RA Public aspects of medicine; RC Internal medicine; RL Dermatology
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/74001/7/74001%20Concomitant%20dengue%20fever.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/74001/8/74001%20Concomitant%20dengue%20fever%20SCOPUS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/74001/; http://www.e-mjm.org/2019/v74n4/varicella-zoster-infection.pdf

Varicella zoster infection is one of the self-limiting viral infections during childhood and dengue fever is an endemic infection in Malaysia, which commonly occurs in the form of nonspecific febrile illness at the initial stage. It is rare for the two viral infections to occur simultaneously. A...