Discriminating malaria from dengue fever in endemic areas: clinical and biological criteria, prognostic score and utility of the C-reactive protein: a retrospective matched-pair study in French Guiana.

• Автори: Loïc Epelboin (Автор), Charlotte Boullé (Автор), Sihem Ouar-Epelboin (Автор), Matthieu Hanf (Автор), Philippe Dussart (Автор), Félix Djossou (Автор), Mathieu Nacher (Автор), Bernard Carme (Автор)
• Формат: Книга
• Опубліковано: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND: Dengue and malaria are two major public health concerns in tropical settings. Although the pathogeneses of these two arthropod-borne diseases differ, their clinical and biological presentations are unspecific. During dengue epidemics, several hundred patients with fever and diffuse pain...