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.

• Autores principales: Loïc Epelboin (Autor), Charlotte Boullé (Autor), Sihem Ouar-Epelboin (Autor), Matthieu Hanf (Autor), Philippe Dussart (Autor), Félix Djossou (Autor), Mathieu Nacher (Autor), Bernard Carme (Autor)
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• Publicado: 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...