Predictive tools for severe dengue conforming to World Health Organization 2009 criteria.

• Main Authors: Luis R Carrasco (Author), Yee Sin Leo (Author), Alex R Cook (Author), Vernon J Lee (Author), Tun L Thein (Author), Chi Jong Go (Author), David C Lye (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Dengue causes 50 million infections per year, posing a large disease and economic burden in tropical and subtropical regions. Only a proportion of dengue cases require hospitalization, and predictive tools to triage dengue patients at greater risk of complications may optimize usage of limited healt...