Challenges in diagnosing scrub typhus among hospitalized patients with undifferentiated fever at a national tertiary hospital in northern Vietnam.

Shungo KatohNgo Chi CuongSugihiro HamaguchiPham Thanh ThuyDo Duy CuongLe Kim AnhNguyen Thi Hien AnhDang Duc AnhEiichiro SandoMotoi SuzukiHiromi FujitaMichio YasunamiKeisuke Yoshihara Lay-Myint Yoshida Daniel Henry Paris Koya Ariyoshi

Published in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2019)

Both the clinical and laboratory diagnoses of ST remain challenging at a tertiary hospital. Implementation of both serological and nucleic acid amplification assays covering endemic O. tsutsugamushi strains is essential.

Keyphrases

nucleic acid
quality improvement
primary care
escherichia coli
healthcare
high throughput