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Psychosis in dengue fever

Author(s) -

Suprakash Chaudhury,

Biswajit Jagtap,

DeepakKumar Ghosh

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

medical journal of dr d y patil university

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2278-7119

pISSN - 0975-2870

DOI - 10.4103/0975-2870.202104

Subject(s) - dengue fever , psychosis , medicine , mania , acute psychosis , anxiety , catatonia , psychiatry , depression (economics) , pediatrics , psychomotor agitation , bipolar disorder , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , virology , mood , economics , macroeconomics

An 18-year-old male student developed abnormal behavior while undergoing treatment for dengue fever. He was ill-kempt, irritable and had auditory and visual hallucinations and vague persecutory delusions in clear sensorium with impaired insight. The psychotic episode had a temporal correlation with dengue fever. Psychiatric comorbidities of dengue fever including mania, anxiety, depression, and catatonia are mentioned in literature but the literature on the psychosis following dengue is sparse and only two cases have been reported. Patients presenting with acute onset of psychosis along with fever should be screened for dengue fever in areas where dengue is endemic

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