Sensitivity and specificity of the World Health Organization pertussis clinical case definition

Abstract COVID-19 started as a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan City, the Province of Hubei, China, in December 2019. It spread to many regions of China, outside of China and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11th, 2020. Initially Africa had no case and now the continent is reporting an increasing number of confirmed cases in an exponential manner (1,2).

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Clinical case review: A method to improve identification of true clinical and radiographic pneumonia in children meeting the World Health Organization definition for pneumonia

BMC Infectious Diseases ◽

10.1186/1471-2334-8-95 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

Taneli Puumalainen ◽

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Beatriz Quiambao ◽

Erma Abucejo-Ladesma ◽

Socorro Lupisan ◽

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Keyword(s):

World Health Organization ◽

Clinical Case ◽

World Health ◽

Case Review ◽

The World ◽

Health Organization ◽

Radiographic Pneumonia

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Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever: The Sensitivity and Specificity of the World Health Organization Definition for Identification of Severe Cases of Dengue in Thailand, 1994–2005

Clinical Infectious Diseases ◽

10.1086/651268 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 50 (8) ◽

pp. 1135-1143 ◽

Cited By ~ 62

Author(s):

Anon Srikiatkhachorn ◽

Robert V. Gibbons ◽

Sharone Green ◽

Daniel H. Libraty ◽

Stephen J. Thomas ◽

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Keyword(s):

World Health Organization ◽

Sensitivity And Specificity ◽

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever ◽

Hemorrhagic Fever ◽

World Health ◽

The World ◽

Health Organization

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Sensitivity and Specificity of the World Health Organization Dengue Classification Schemes for Severe Dengue Assessment in Children in Rio de Janeiro

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0096314 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. e96314 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Gleicy A. Macedo ◽

Michelle Luiza C. Gonin ◽

Sheila M. Pone ◽

Oswaldo G. Cruz ◽

Flávio F. Nobre ◽

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Keyword(s):

World Health Organization ◽

Sensitivity And Specificity ◽

Rio De Janeiro ◽

World Health ◽

Severe Dengue ◽

Classification Schemes ◽

The World ◽

Health Organization

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WHO initiates enhanced global surveillance in response to acute respiratory syndrome in southern China, Vietnam, and Hong Kong, special administrative region (SAR) of China

Weekly releases (1997–2007) ◽

10.2807/esw.07.11.02177-en ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 7 (11) ◽

Author(s):

A C de Benoist ◽

D Boccia

Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

World Health Organization ◽

Southern China ◽

Case Definition ◽

World Health ◽

Unknown Etiology ◽

Special Administrative Region ◽

The World ◽

Recent Developments ◽

Health Organization

In response to recent developments in southern China, Vietnam, and Hong Kong, the World Health Organization (WHO) has initiated global surveillance of cases with acute respiratory syndrome of unknown etiology (1) and provided the following case definition for hospital based surveillance:

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Long-term Positivity to SARS-CoV-2: A Clinical Case of COVID-19 with Persistent Evidence of Infection

European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine ◽

10.12890/2020_001707 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Damiano D'Ardes ◽

Andrea Boccatonda ◽

Ilaria Rossi ◽

Michela Pontolillo ◽

Giulio Cocco ◽

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Keyword(s):

World Health Organization ◽

Persistent Infection ◽

Clinical Case ◽

Hubei Province ◽

World Health ◽

The World ◽

Health Organization

In December 2019, an outbreak of a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was reported in Hubei province in China. The disease has since spread worldwide and the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic on 11 March 2020. We describe the case of a 65-year-old woman who clinically recovered from COVID-19 but showed persistent infection with SARS-CoV-2 for 51 days.

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