Defining Disease Heterogeneity to Guide the Empirical Treatment of Febrile Illness in Resource Poor Settings

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  White, Lisa J ^a,b   Newton, Paul N ^a,c   Maude, Richard J ^a,b   Pan ngum, Wirichada ^b   Fried, Jessica R ^a,b   Mayxay, Mayfong ^a,c,d   Maude, Rapeephan R ^b   Day, Nicholas P J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c MAHOSOT HOSPITAL   (Laos)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Laos)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CLOXACILLIN; DOXYCYCLINE; OFLOXACIN;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEVER; FLUID BALANCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LAOS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; SOCIAL STATUS;

ALGORITHMS; ASIA; HUMANS; LAOS; MALARIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84866700688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044545     Document Type: Article

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