Research Article Clinical, Molecular, and Epidemiological Analysis of Dengue Cases during a Major Outbreak in the Midwest

Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This study aims to perform the first molecular and clinical-epidemiological analysis of dengue cases in Divinopolis, MG, Brazil. Data from 4,110 cases of dengue were accessed and 190 clinical samples were collected for molecular analyses. In this study, 2.7 % of the men and 3.0 % of the women were admitted to hospital. There was no association between gender and hospital admission. The symptoms observed in this study are according to the Health Ministry, but fever was present in 82.2 % and not in 100 % of cases.The chance of hospital admission was 1.55 higher in patients with any kind of bleeding (334) and 2.4 % of individuals without bleeding were also hospitalized due to other warning signs. In the molecular analyses, 23 % of the samples were positive for DENV. DENV-