Dengue Fever Prevalence in Rural Area of Mathura District of Uttar Pradesh.

Introduction-Among the 10 highest priority health issues presented, dengue was identied as one of the four main infections threatening global health by World Health Organization in 2019. In India, Dengue control comes under the purview of the NVBDCP, has been impeded by a lack of nancial and human resources, poor availability of point-of-care diagnostics, and ineffective mosquito control methods. The dengue virus (DENV) is an RNA virus belonging to the genus avivirus, and there are four serologically and genetically distinct serotypes, DENV 1–4. Infection can occur with any of the four serotypes, and multiple sequential infections can also occur. This study was a hospital-based cross-sectional study conducted in the Mic Material &Methods- robiology Laboratory of Tertiary Care Hospital . The detection of positive cases was done by estimation of nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) antigen and immunoglobulin (Ig) M or IgG antibody. 31.8% samples were found positive for dengue fever. Female p Results- atients have registered more (35.29%) positive share than that of male (29.20%) patients. Highest number of positive cases (45.07%) were registered in 19-30years age bracket followed by 37.5% in age bracket of more than 60 years age . The lowest (16.32%) positive cases were found in children up to the age of 18 years . The platelets count below 25000 µl were recorded only in 2.63% of positive cases. 38.15% of positive cases have more than 200000 µl platelets. IPD patients had more (38.32%) positive cases than OPD patients (16.67%). In the present Conclusion- study, only the primary infection of Dengue fever was detected . There was no case found suffering with secondary infection . Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) has not been noticed in any case. The lowest positive cases were recorded in children. The positive cases have slightly more share in female patients than male patients . The study revealed more positive cases in IPD patients than OPD patients.