UNDERDIAGNOSES OF RICKETTSIA IN PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED WITH ACUTE FEVER IN INDONESIA: OBSERVATIONAL STUDY RESULTS

Underdiagnoses of Rickettsia in patients hospitalized with acute fever in Indonesia: observational study results

Abstract Background Reports of human rickettsial infection in Indonesia are limited.This study sought to characterize the epidemiology of human rickettsioses amongst patients hospitalized with fever at 8 tertiary hospitals in Indonesia.Methods Acute and convalescent blood from 975 hospitalized non-dengue patients was tested for Rickettsia IgM and I

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Assessing the impact of including variation in general population mortality on standard errors of relative survival and loss in life expectancy

Abstract Background A relative survival approach is often used in population-based cancer studies, where other cause (or expected) mortality is assumed to be the same as the mortality in the general population, given a specific covariate pattern.The population mortality is assumed to be known (fixed), i.e.measured without uncertainty.This could hav

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