Corticosteroids for dengue - why don't they work?

• Main Authors: Thi Hanh Tien Nguyen (Author), Than Ha Quyen Nguyen (Author), Tuan Trung Vu (Author), Jeremy Farrar (Author), Truong Long Hoang (Author), Thi Hoai Tam Dong (Author), Van Ngoc Tran (Author), Khanh Lam Phung (Author), Marcel Wolbers (Author), Stephen S Whitehead (Author), Martin L Hibberd (Author), Bridget Wills (Author), Cameron P Simmons (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Dysregulated immune responses may contribute to the clinical complications that occur in some patients with dengue.In Vietnamese pediatric dengue cases randomized to early prednisolone therapy, 81 gene-transcripts (0.2% of the 47,231 evaluated) were differentially abundant in whole-blood between hig...