Dengue as a cause of acute undifferentiated fever in Vietnam

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Phuong, Hoang Lan ^a,b   de Vries, Peter J ^a   Nga, Tran T T ^a,b   Giao, Phan T ^b   Hung, Le Q ^b   Binh, Tran Q ^b   Nam, Nguyen V ^c   Nagelkerke, Nico ^d   Kager, Piet A ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CHO RAY HOSPITAL   (Viet Nam)

^c Binh Thuan Malaria and Goiter Control Center   (Viet Nam)

^d UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FEVER; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREDICTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SERODIAGNOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TOURNIQUET; TREATMENT PLANNING; TROPICAL DISEASE; VIET NAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENGUE; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VIETNAM;

EID: 33749366202     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-6-123     Document Type: Article

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