Challenges in diagnosing scrub typhus among hospitalized patients with undifferentiated fever at a national tertiary hospital in northern Vietnam.

• Автори: Shungo Katoh (Автор), Ngo Chi Cuong (Автор), Sugihiro Hamaguchi (Автор), Pham Thanh Thuy (Автор), Do Duy Cuong (Автор), Le Kim Anh (Автор), Nguyen Thi Hien Anh (Автор), Dang Duc Anh (Автор), Eiichiro Sando (Автор), Motoi Suzuki (Автор), Hiromi Fujita (Автор), Michio Yasunami (Автор), Keisuke Yoshihara (Автор), Lay-Myint Yoshida (Автор), Daniel Henry Paris (Автор), Koya Ariyoshi (Автор)
• Формат: Книга
• Опубліковано: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Предмети: article
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BACKGROUND:Scrub typhus (ST) is a leading cause of non-malarial febrile illness in Southeast Asia, but evidence of its true disease burden is limited because of difficulties of making the clinical diagnosis and lack of adequate diagnostic tests. To describe the epidemiology and clinical characterist...