TY - JOUR AU - Bhaskaran, Divyalakshmi AU - Chadha, Sarabjit Singh AU - Sarin, Sanjay AU - Sen, Rajashree AU - Arafah, Sonia AU - Dittrich, Sabine PY - 2019 DA - 2019/11/13 TI - Diagnostic tools used in the evaluation of acute febrile illness in South India: a scoping review JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 970 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Acute febrile illness (AFI) is characterized by malaise, myalgia and a raised temperature that is a nonspecific manifestation of infectious diseases in the tropics. The lack of appropriate diagnostics for the evaluation of AFI leads to increased morbidity and mortality in resource-limited settings, specifically low-income countries like India. The review aimed to identify the number, type and quality of diagnostics used for AFI evaluation during passive case detection at health care centres in South India. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4589-8 DO - 10.1186/s12879-019-4589-8 ID - Bhaskaran2019 ER -