Dengue fever presenting as epididymo-orchitis

Abstract

Dengue is an arthropod-borne viral infection of humans with potential fatal complications. Dengue virus infection can clinically manifest as dengue fever, dengue shock syndrome, and dengue hemorrhagic fever. Usual symptoms during the early febrile stage include fever, malaise, headache, body pains and rash. Atypical manifestations of dengue can be diverse and multisystemic. We describe a case of dengue presenting with epididymo-orchitis which to our knowledge is the first such report.

Keywords

• Arthropod-borne
• complications
• dengue fever
• epididymo-orchitis
• viral infection