Differentiating dengue virus infection from scrub typhus in Thai adults with fever

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 536-538

  Watt, George ^a   Jongsakul, Krisada ^a   Chouriyagune, Charoen ^b   Paris, Robert ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Thailand)

^b Chiang Rai Prachanukhro Hospital   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FISHER EXACT TEST; GINGIVA BLEEDING; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SCRUB TYPHUS; THAILAND; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; BLOOD; HEMATOCRIT; IMMUNOLOGY;

DENGUE VIRUS; MARTES PENNANTI; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIALES; RNA VIRUSES;

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PLATELET COUNT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCRUB TYPHUS; THAILAND;

EID: 0037794120     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2003.68.536     Document Type: Article

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