Prevalence of the dengue virus and risk factors in patients who attended the health units of the Esmeraldas canton in 2019

Abstract

Introduction: Dengue is an infectious disease caused by one of the four serotypes of the analogous virus, which is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected mosquitoes of the genus Aedes Objective: To identify the prevalence of dengue virus and risk factors in the patients who attended the health units of the Esmeraldas canton in 2019. Materials and Methods: The research is part of the non-experimental, retrospective, descriptive research design, based on the information of patients with a positive dengue diagnosis. treated in the health units of the Esmeraldas canton in 2019. Results: In this study, 247 registered patients with a presumptive diagnosis of dengue were found, which we took as a population, 4 samples of patients, not processed, and 121 samples were excluded. of patients with a negative result, leaving us with 121 samples of patients with a confirmed diagnosis of dengue, taking to this number of patients as a sample for our study, which represents 49% as the prevalence of dengue virus in patients who attended the health units of the Esmeraldas canton during 2019. Conclusion: The prevalence of dengue in patients who attended the health units of the Esmeraldas canton is 49%, the most predominant age was between 5 and 9 years, a significant number of patients come from the Simón Plata Torres parish, sectors with a lack of basic services infrastructure, gardens and patios with weeds and vegetation, bushes and trees that surround the houses, increasing the chances of breeding mosquito vectors of this condition