Title |
Usefulness and applicability of the revised dengue case classification by disease: multi-centre study in 18 countries
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Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, April 2011
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2334-11-106 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Judit Barniol, Roger Gaczkowski, Eliana Vega Barbato, Rivaldo V da Cunha, Doris Salgado, Eric Martínez, Carmita Soria Segarra, Ernesto B Pleites Sandoval, Ajay Mishra, Ida Safitri Laksono, Lucy CS Lum, José G Martínez, Andrea Núnez, Angel Balsameda, Ivan Allende, Gladys Ramírez, Efren Dimaano, Kay Thomacheck, Naeema A Akbar, Eng E Ooi, Elci Villegas, Tran T Hien, Jeremy Farrar, Olaf Horstick, Axel Kroeger, Thomas Jaenisch |
Abstract |
In view of the long term discussion on the appropriateness of the dengue classification into dengue fever (DF), dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) and dengue shock syndrome (DSS), the World Health Organization (WHO) has outlined in its new global dengue guidelines a revised classification into levels of severity: dengue fever with an intermediary group of "dengue fever with warning sings", and severe dengue. The objective of this paper was to compare the two classification systems regarding applicability in clinical practice and surveillance, as well as user-friendliness and acceptance by health staff. |
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Malaysia | 1 | 50% |
Philippines | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 2 | <1% |
Indonesia | 2 | <1% |
Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
French Polynesia | 1 | <1% |
United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
Vietnam | 1 | <1% |
Mexico | 1 | <1% |
Singapore | 1 | <1% |
Other | 0 | 0% |
Unknown | 250 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 44 | 17% |
Researcher | 37 | 14% |
Student > Bachelor | 33 | 13% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 25 | 10% |
Student > Postgraduate | 20 | 8% |
Other | 58 | 22% |
Unknown | 44 | 17% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 99 | 38% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 34 | 13% |
Immunology and Microbiology | 14 | 5% |
Social Sciences | 11 | 4% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 11 | 4% |
Other | 42 | 16% |
Unknown | 50 | 19% |