Dengue Fever Scoring System: New Strategy for the Early Detection of Acute Dengue Virus Infection in Taiwan

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 879-885

  Chang, Ko ^a   Lu, Po Liang ^a,b   Ko, Wen Chien ^c   Tsai, Jih Jin ^a,b   Tsai, Wu Hsiung ^b   Chen, Chaur Doug ^b   Chen, Yen Hsu ^a,b   Chen, Tun Chieh ^a,b   Hsieh, Hsiao Chen ^a   Pan, Chao Ying ^b   Harn, Ming Rong ^d  

^a KAOHSIUNG MUNICIPAL HSIAO KANG HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

dengue; murine typhus; Q fever; scoring system; scrub typhus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; Q FEVER; SCORING SYSTEM; SCRUB TYPHUS; TAIWAN; TYPHUS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; DENGUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE;

EID: 71649110760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 09296646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-6646(09)60420-4     Document Type: Article

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