Differentiating scrub typhus meningitis from brucellar meningitis in children: A single-center retrospective study

• Yonghan Luo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ Equal Contributions

  Affiliations Second Department of Infectious Disease, Kunming Children’s Hospital (Children’s Hospital Affiliated to Kunming Medical University), Kunming, Yunnan, China, Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan, China

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• Yan Guo ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  ¶☯ Equal Contributions

  Affiliations Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan, China, Department of Reproductive Gynecology, NHC Key Laboratory of Healthy Birth and Birth Defect Prevention in Western China First People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming, Yunnan, China, Department of Reproductive Gynecology, The Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan, China

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• Ying Zhu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Second Department of Infectious Disease, Kunming Children’s Hospital (Children’s Hospital Affiliated to Kunming Medical University), Kunming, Yunnan, China

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• Haifeng Jin,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Second Department of Infectious Disease, Kunming Children’s Hospital (Children’s Hospital Affiliated to Kunming Medical University), Kunming, Yunnan, China

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• Penghao Cui,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Second Department of Infectious Disease, Kunming Children’s Hospital (Children’s Hospital Affiliated to Kunming Medical University), Kunming, Yunnan, China

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• Ruonan Li,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Second Department of Infectious Disease, Kunming Children’s Hospital (Children’s Hospital Affiliated to Kunming Medical University), Kunming, Yunnan, China

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• Qingping Tang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Second Department of Infectious Disease, Kunming Children’s Hospital (Children’s Hospital Affiliated to Kunming Medical University), Kunming, Yunnan, China

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• Yin Li,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Second Department of Infectious Disease, Kunming Children’s Hospital (Children’s Hospital Affiliated to Kunming Medical University), Kunming, Yunnan, China

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• Yanchun Wang

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wangyanchun0204@163.com

  Affiliation Second Department of Infectious Disease, Kunming Children’s Hospital (Children’s Hospital Affiliated to Kunming Medical University), Kunming, Yunnan, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8216-6533

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