ArticleTropical medicine and health2025
When diagnostics outpace decisions: mimicry and expansibility in tropical infectious diseases.
Article in Tropical medicine and health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- Quantitative total serum IgG4 reporting in human paragonimiasis: a scoping review.Tropical medicine and health · 2026Review
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Abstract
Diagnostic advances outpace bedside interpretation in tropical medicine. Two forces drive this gap: mimicry-infectious syndromes resembling noninfectious disease, and expansibility-epidemiology transcending geography, age, season, and host. The result is misclassification, mistargeted therapies (e.g., steroid-treated helminth infection), and wasted resources amid climate- and mobility-driven shifts. This correspondence proposes lightweight, locally led evidence circulation through structured case reviews, minimal essential data, and living, site-specific algorithms that integrate mimicry-aware red flags and calibrated pretest probabilities. Such networks transform tacit experience into auditable knowledge, improve day-to-day decision-making, and align technological advances with context, thereby strengthening equitable and sustainable care for tropical diseases.
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