%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Mayxay, M.
%A Sengvilaipaseuth, O.
%A Chanthongthip, A.
%A Dubot Pérès, Audrey
%A Rolain, J. M.
%A Parola, P.
%A Craig, S. B.
%A Tulsiani, S.
%A Burns, M. A.
%A Khanthavong, M.
%A Keola, S.
%A Pongvongsa, T.
%A Raoult, Didier
%A Dittrich, S.
%A Newton, P. N.
%T Causes of fever in rural southern Laos
%D 2015
%L fdi:010065288
%G ENG
%J American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
%@ 0002-9637
%K LAOS
%M ISI:000361254900016
%N 3
%P 517-520
%R 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0772
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010065288
%> https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers20-08/010065288.pdf
%V 93
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X The etiology of fever in rural Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos) has remained obscure until recently owing to the lack of laboratory facilities. We conducted a study to determine the causes of fever among 229 patients without malaria in Savannakhet Province, southern Laos; 52% had evidence of at least one diagnosis (45% with single and 7% with apparent multiple infections). Among patients with only one diagnosis, dengue (30.1%) was the most common, followed by leptospirosis (7.0%), Japanese encephalitis virus infection (3.5%), scrub typhus (2.6%), spotted fever group infection (0.9%), unspecified flavivirus infection (0.9%), and murine typhus (0.4%). We discuss the empirical treatment of fever in relation to these findings.
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