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Volume 20, Number 8—August 2014

Dispatch

Co-circulation of Dengue and Chikungunya Viruses, Al Hudaydah, Yemen, 2012

Giovanni RezzaComments to Author , Gamal El-Sawaf, Giovanni Faggioni, Fenicia Vescio, Ranya Al Ameri, Riccardo De Santis, Ghada Helaly, Alice Pomponi, Dalia Metwally, Massimo Fantini, Hussein Qadi, Massimo Ciccozzi, and Florigio Lista
Author affiliations: Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy (G. Rezza, F. Vescio, M. Ciccozzi); Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt (G. El-Sawaf, G. Helaly, D. Metwally); Army Medical and Veterinary Research Center, Rome (G. Faggioni, R. De Santis, A. Pomponi, F. Lista); University of Sana’a, Yemen (R. Al Ameri, H. Qadi); University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome (M. Fantini)

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Table 2

Clinical characteristics of study participants with dengue and chikungunya, Al Hudaydah, Yemen, 2012

Sign or symptom Participants with signs or symptoms of dengue, n = 116
 Participants with signs or symptoms of chikungunya, n = 49
 Difference* SE P value
No. (%) SE No. (%) SE
Fever 116 (100) 0 49 (100) 0 0
Arthralgia 114 (98) 0.01 48 (98) 0.02 0 0.02 0.890
Myalgia 110 (95) 0.02 46 (94) 0.03 0.01 0.04 0.807
Headache 109 (94) 0.02 43 (88) 0.05 0.06 0.05 0.178
Abdominal pain 93 (80) 0.04 35 (71) 0.07 0.09 0.07 0.221
Backbone pain 85 (73) 0.04 32 (65) 0.07 0.08 0.08 0.306
Watery diarrhea 56 (48) 0.05 27 (55) 0.07 −0.07 0.09 0.426
Rash 35 (30) 0.04 13 (27) 0.06 0.04 0.08 0.640
Vomiting 29 (25) 0.04 20 (41) 0.07 −0.16 0.08 0.042

*Difference between proportions.

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