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Diagnostic value of symptoms and laboratory data for pertussis in adolescent and adult patients

BACKGROUND: Several symptoms are classically thought to be suggestive of pertussis in children, but the diagnostic value of these symptoms in adolescent and adult patients is unclear. We evaluated the accuracy of the clinical findings for the early presumptive diagnosis of pertussis in adolescent an...

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Autores principales: Miyashita, Naoyuki, Akaike, Hiroto, Teranishi, Hideto, Kawai, Yasuhiro, Ouchi, Kazunobu, Kato, Tadashi, Hayashi, Toshikiyo, Okimoto, Niro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3600016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23496900
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-129