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

• Main Authors: Shungo Katoh (Author), Ngo Chi Cuong (Author), Sugihiro Hamaguchi (Author), Pham Thanh Thuy (Author), Do Duy Cuong (Author), Le Kim Anh (Author), Nguyen Thi Hien Anh (Author), Dang Duc Anh (Author), Eiichiro Sando (Author), Motoi Suzuki (Author), Hiromi Fujita (Author), Michio Yasunami (Author), Keisuke Yoshihara (Author), Lay-Myint Yoshida (Author), Daniel Henry Paris (Author), Koya Ariyoshi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: 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...