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1655. Performance of Molecular and Serologic Tests for the Diagnosis of Scrub Typhus

BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of scrub typhus, caused by the bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi, is challenging because of the overlap of its nonspecific symptoms with other infections coupled with the lack of sufficient data on the performance of diagnostic tests. Early diagnosis of scrub typhus is crucial t...

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Autores principales: Varghese, George M, Kannan, Kavitha, Abhilash, Kundavaram, Nithyananth, Alice, David, Thambu, Sathyendra, Sowmya, Hansdak, Samuel, Iyyadurai, Ramya, Prakash, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6808676/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.1519