Knowledge-Based Patient Screening for Rare and Emerging Infectious/Parasitic Diseases: A Case Study of Brucellosis and Murine Typhus
Many infectious and parasitic diseases, especially those newly emerging or reemerging, present a difficult diagnostic challenge because of their obscurity and low incidence.Important clues that could lead to an initial diagnosis are often overlooked, misinterpreted, not linked to a disease, or disregarded.We constructed a computer-based decision su