Etiology of acute febrile illness in the peruvian amazon as determined by modular formatted quantitative PCR: a protocol for RIVERA, a health facility-based case-control study

• Main Authors: Pablo Peñataro Yori (Author), Maribel Paredes Olórtegui (Author), Francesca Schiaffino (Author), Josh M. Colston (Author), Tackeshy Pinedo Vasquez (Author), Paul F. Garcia Bardales (Author), Valentino Shapiama Lopez (Author), Loyda Fiorella Zegarra Paredes (Author), Karin Perez (Author), Greisi Curico (Author), Thomas Flynn (Author), Jixian Zhang (Author), Cesar Ramal Asayag (Author), Graciela Meza Sanchez (Author), Hermann Silva Delgado (Author), Martin Casapia Morales (Author), Wilma Casanova (Author), Bruce Jiu (Author), Richard Oberhelman (Author), Cesar Munayco Escate (Author), Rachel Silver (Author), Olga Henao (Author), Kerry K. Cooper (Author), Jie Liu (Author), Eric R. Houpt (Author), Margaret N. Kosek (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The study of the etiology of acute febrile illness (AFI) has historically been designed as a prevalence of pathogens detected from a case series. This strategy has an inherent unrealistic assumption that all pathogen detection allows for causal attribution, despite known asymptom...