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Dengue is endemic in 100 countries around the world after being reemerged as an important tropical disease since the middle of the twentieth century probably as a consequence of world globalization. The majority of the patients suffering from Dengue are asymptomatic or have a mild disease, but a small percentage can have hemorrhagic manifestations and/or a shock syndrome with multi-organic failure

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  1. Internal Medicine, Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, Belize City, Belize

    Pedro Arriaga

  2. Adult Intensive Care, Critical Care Division, Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, Belize City, Belize

    Jorge Hidalgo

  3. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital Hima – San Pablo – Caguas, Rio Piedras, PR, USA

    Gloria M. Rodriguez-Vega

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Correspondence to Gloria M. Rodriguez-Vega .

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  1. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

    Robert C. Hyzy

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Arriaga, P., Hidalgo, J., Rodriguez-Vega, G.M. (2017). Dengue. In: Hyzy, R. (eds) Evidence-Based Critical Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43341-7_58

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