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case-fatality ratio |
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case-fatality ratio Epidemiology A value calculated as 100 cases of a disease 'X', divided by the number of persons with the disease who died in a given period of time; the resulting ratio is equal to the rate of a disease's
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Although PUUV is thought to cause a mild form of HFRS, designated as nephropathia epidemica (NE), severe courses have been described with a case-fatality ratio of up to 0. Forty-two household flocks were considered likely to have been infected from January through March 2005 because >60% of the flock died, case-fatality ratio was 100%, and both young and mature birds died within 1 to 2 days. Includes only hospitalized patients who met a strict definition of severe malaria, which probably explains the considerably higher case-fatality ratio (CFR) noted in Gutten. |
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