Etiology of acute febrile illness in the peruvian amazon as determined by modular formatted quantitative PCR: a protocol for RIVERA, a health facility-based case-control study
Abstract Background The study of the etiology of acute febrile illness (AFI) has historically been designed as a prevalence of pathogens detected from a case series. This strategy has an inherent unrealistic assumption that all pathogen detection allows for causal attribution, despite known asymptom...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2023-04-01
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Series: | BMC Public Health |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15619-6 |