Clinical and epidemiologic characteristics of dengue and other etiologic agents among patients with acute febrile illness, Puerto Rico, 2012-2015.

• Main Authors: Kay M Tomashek (Author), Olga D Lorenzi (Author), Doris A Andújar-Pérez (Author), Brenda C Torres-Velásquez (Author), Elizabeth A Hunsperger (Author), Jorge Luis Munoz-Jordan (Author), Janice Perez-Padilla (Author), Aidsa Rivera (Author), Gladys E Gonzalez-Zeno (Author), Tyler M Sharp (Author), Renee L Galloway (Author), Mindy Glass Elrod (Author), Demetrius L Mathis (Author), M Steven Oberste (Author), W Allan Nix (Author), Elizabeth Henderson (Author), Jennifer McQuiston (Author), Joseph Singleton (Author), Cecilia Kato (Author), Carlos García Gubern (Author), William Santiago-Rivera (Author), Jesús Cruz-Correa (Author), Robert Muns-Sosa (Author), Juan D Ortiz-Rivera (Author), Gerson Jiménez (Author), Ivonne E Galarza (Author), Kalanthe Horiuchi (Author), Harold S Margolis (Author), Luisa I Alvarado (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Identifying etiologies of acute febrile illnesses (AFI) is challenging due to non-specific presentation and limited availability of diagnostics. Prospective AFI studies provide a methodology to describe the syndrome by age and etiology, findings that can be used to develop case definitions and multi...