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Volume 22, Number 11—November 2016
Dispatch

Co-infections with Chikungunya and Dengue Viruses, Guatemala, 2015

Thomas EdwardsComments to Author , Leticia del Carmen Castillo Signor, Christopher Williams, Evelin Donis, Luis E. Cuevas1, and Emily R. Adams1
Author affiliations: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK (T. Edwards, C. Williams, L.E. Cuevas, E.R. Adams); Laboratorio Nacional de Salud Guatemala, Villa Nueva, Guatemala (L. del Carmen Castillo Signor, E. Donis)

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Table

Characteristics of patients infected with chikungunya virus, dengue virus, or both, Guatemala, 2015*

Characteristic CHIKV moninfection DENV monoinfection DENV/CHIKV co-infection p value
CHIKV vs co-infection DENV vs co-infection
No. samples tested 49 49 46
Sex
M 15/48 (31) 23/45 (51) 21/46 (46) 0.2 0.6
F 33/48 (69) 22/45 (49) 25/46 (54) 0.2 0.6
Age, y
<1 2/48 (4.2) 3/45 (7) 5/46 (11) 0.2 0.7
2–16 15/48 (31) 26/45 (58) 19/46 (41) 0.4 0.1
17–30 13/48 (27) 6/45 (13) 9/46 (20) 0.4 0.5
31–60 14/48 (29) 9/45 (20) 10/46 (22) 0.5 1
>60 4/48 (8.3) 1/45 (2) 3/46 (7) 1 0.6
Sign/symptom
Hemorrhage 7/49 (14) 11/44 (25) 8/44 (18) 0.8 0.6
Arthralgia/myalgia 41/44 (93) 36/42 (86) 35/45 (77) 0.07 0.4
Fever 43/48 (90) 41/42 (98) 46/46 (100) 0.06 0.5
Rash 31/48 (65) 11/43 (26) 23/44 (52) 0.3 0.02
Nausea 26/46 (57) 31/44 (70) 22/44 (50) 0.7 0.08
Vomiting 13/46 (28) 21/43 (49) 16/45 (36) 0.5 0.3
Diarrhea 3/18 (17) 10/34 (29) 6/25 (24) 0.7 0.8
Headache 40/47 (85) 35/42 (83) 40/44 (91) 0.5 0.3
Hospitalization 0/48 (0) 16/45 (36) 8/46 (17) 0.002 0.09
Death 0/48 (0) 4/45 (9) 2/46 (4) 0.2 0.4

*Values are no. positive/no. tested (%) unless otherwise indicated. CHIKV, chikungunya virus; DENV, dengue virus.

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1These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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