Assessment of the new World Health Organization's dengue classification for predicting severity of illness and level of healthcare required

• Balgees A. Ajlan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Balgees A. Ajlan, Maram M. Alafif

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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• Maram M. Alafif ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Balgees A. Ajlan, Maram M. Alafif

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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• Maha M. Alawi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Infection Control and Environmental Health Unit, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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• Naeema A. Akbar,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Ministry of Health, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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• Eman K. Aldigs,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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• Tariq A. Madani

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tmadani@kau.edu.sa

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Infection Control and Environmental Health Unit, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2453-0623

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