ECOLOGICAL IMPACT ON DENGUE FEVER - A VECTOR-BORNE ZOONOSES.

The present study with a sample size of 239 collected from the month of September to November in a tertiary care hospital, the maximum turnout of patients for dengue testing was found in the month of September however maximum positive dengue cases were recorded in the month of October. Positive cases are more ( 35.29%)detected in female patients in comparison to male positive cases (29.20%)during the study period. More women(16.67%) used to get diagnosed( test sample) after at least one week from onset of infection in comparison to men (10 %) meaning thereby the priority for diagnosis is less seen in rural women folk. There is no dengue secondary infection found in 239 samples under study .There was no co- infection recorded with chickungunya out of 239 samples tested for dengue and chickungunya. Out of 239 total samples tested , 76 samples found positive(31.80%) with NS1 ,10 samples (4.18%%) found positive only with IgM antibody, Nil sample was found positive with IgG and 15(6.28%) cases are positive with NS1 and IgM both. We found declining trend of reporting of dengue cases after end of September month . It means as the weather temp. gets reduced ,the Dengue cases started declining. There is important angle to minimize contact of human species from animal species like pigs and rodents to control the transmission of dengue virus . Integrated research is needed for enzootic cycle with animals and further spilling of virus to human transmission .