Challenges of acute febrile illness diagnosis in a national infectious diseases center in Rio de Janeiro: 16-year experience of syndromic surveillance.
Clarisse da Silveira BressanMaria de Lourdes Benamor TeixeiraMaria Isabel Fragoso da Silveira GouvêaAnielle de Pina-CostaHeloísa Ferreira Pinto SantosGuilherme Amaral CalvetOtilia LupiAndre Machado SiqueiraRogério Valls-de-SouzaClarissa ValimPatrícia BrasilPublished in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2023)
Numerous patients did not have a conclusive etiologic diagnosis. Since syndromic classification used for standardization of etiological investigation and presumptive clinical diagnosis had moderate accuracy, it is necessary to incorporate new diagnostic technologies to improve diagnostic accuracy and surveillance capacity.