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Clinical and Epidemiological Features of Typhoid Fever in Pemba, Zanzibar: Assessment of the Performance of the WHO Case Definitions

BACKGROUND: The gold standard for diagnosis of typhoid fever is blood culture (BC). Because blood culture is often not available in impoverished settings it would be helpful to have alternative diagnostic approaches. We therefore investigated the usefulness of clinical signs, WHO case definition and...

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Autores principales:	Thriemer, Kamala, Ley, Benedikt B., Ame, Shaali S., Deen, Jaqueline L., Pak, Gi Deok, Chang, Na Yoon, Hashim, Ramadhan, Schmied, Wolfgang Hellmut, Busch, Clara Jana-Lui, Nixon, Shanette, Morrissey, Anne, Puri, Mahesh K., Ochiai, R. Leon, Wierzba, Thomas, Clemens, John D., Ali, Mohammad, Jiddawi, Mohammad S., von Seidlein, Lorenz, Ali, Said M.
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2012
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3527440/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23284780 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051823

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