Abordaje clínico y evaluación de la necesidad de antibióticos en enfermedades febriles tropicales como el dengue

Abstract

We define the febrile syndrome as the set of symptoms and signs whose main sign is hyperthermia (greater than 38), it is a response of the organism to agents of an infectious nature as non-infectious in a tropical context. Many times in the emergency services there is the erroneous thought that every fever needs antibiotic, there are many infectious diseases as well as not that they do not do without them for their treatment. In the present study, we present a case of dengue as a frequent vector disease in our environment against other causes of fever such as respiratory tract infections and acute gastroenteritis to make a correct differential diagnosis between these and to evaluate the need or not of antibiotic therapy to avoid its irrational use.