From primary care to hospitalization: clinical warning signs of severe dengue fever in children and adolescents during an outbreak in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

We analyzed factors associated with severe cases of dengue in children and adolescents hospitalized during the 2007/2008 epidemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is a retrospective case-control study that covers 88 cases of severe dengue in patients admitted to four tertiary care children's hos...

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Published in:	Cadernos de Saúde Pública
Main Authors:	Gerusa Gibson, Reinaldo Souza-Santos, Patrícia Brasil, Antonio Guilherme Pacheco, Oswaldo G. Cruz, Nildimar Alves Honório, Claire Kubelka, Marilia Sá Carvalho
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz 2013-01-01
Subjects:	Dengue Epidemics Signs and Symptoms
Online Access:	http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-311X2013000500010&tlng=en