Development and validation of a clinical rule for the diagnosis of chikungunya fever in a dengue-endemic area

Raquel Pereira Batista; Yara Hahr Marques Hökerberg; Raquel de Vasconcellos Carvalhaes de Oliveira; Sonia Regina Lambert Passos

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0279970

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Development and validation of a clinical rule for the diagnosis of chikungunya fever in a dengue-endemic area

Raquel Pereira Batista ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Raquel Pereira Batista, Yara Hahr Marques Hökerberg

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

* E-mail: raqbatist@ufrj.br, raqbatist@gmail.com

Affiliations Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6600-515X

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Yara Hahr Marques Hökerberg ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Raquel Pereira Batista, Yara Hahr Marques Hökerberg

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

Affiliations Laboratório de Epidemiologia Clínica, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Estácio de Sá (UNESA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Raquel de Vasconcellos Carvalhaes de Oliveira ,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ RVCO and SRLP also contributed to this work.

Affiliation Laboratório de Epidemiologia Clínica, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9387-8645

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Sonia Regina Lambert Passos

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ RVCO and SRLP also contributed to this work.

Affiliation Laboratório de Epidemiologia Clínica, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Development and validation of a clinical rule for the diagnosis of chikungunya fever in a dengue-endemic area

Raquel Pereira Batista,
Yara Hahr Marques Hökerberg,
Raquel de Vasconcellos Carvalhaes de Oliveira,
Sonia Regina Lambert Passos

Published: January 6, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279970

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