Challenges in diagnosing scrub typhus among hospitalized patients with undifferentiated fever at a national tertiary hospital in northern Vietnam

Scrub typhus (ST) is a leading cause of non-malarial febrile illness in Southeast Asia, but evidence of its true disease burden is limited because of difficulties of making the clinical diagnosis and lack of adequate diagnostic tests. To describe the epidemiology and clinical characteristics of ST,...

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Published in:	PLoS neglected tropical diseases Vol. 13; no. 12; p. e0007928
Main Authors:	Katoh, Shungo, Cuong, Ngo Chi, Hamaguchi, Sugihiro, Thuy, Pham Thanh, Cuong, Do Duy, Anh, Le Kim, Anh, Nguyen Thi Hien, Anh, Dang Duc, Sando, Eiichiro, Suzuki, Motoi, Fujita, Hiromi, Yasunami, Michio, Yoshihara, Keisuke, Yoshida, Lay-Myint, Paris, Daniel Henry, Ariyoshi, Koya
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 01.12.2019 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Biology and Life Sciences Computer and Information Sciences Diagnostic Tests, Routine - methods Female Fever - diagnosis Fever - etiology Humans Male Medicine and Health Sciences Middle Aged Molecular Diagnostic Techniques - methods People and Places Prospective Studies Research and Analysis Methods Scrub Typhus - diagnosis Scrub Typhus - epidemiology Scrub Typhus - pathology Serologic Tests - methods Tertiary Care Centers Vietnam - epidemiology Young Adult Vietnam
ISSN:	1935-2735, 1935-2727, 1935-2735
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