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Acute undifferentiated febrile illness: Protocol in emergency department

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020
Fever accounts for around 15% of emergency visits in elderly age group and around 5% in adults. The spectrum of etiologies ranges from non-infectious to infectious etiologies.
Vempalli N Subramanyam, Nidhi Kaeley, Manish Kumar, Subodh K Pandey, Bharat B Bhardwaj, Konda S Reddy   +5 more
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Management of glycemia in acute febrile illness

Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2017
With increasing the prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes across the globe, a large number of patients with acute febrile illness (AFI) are likely to have concomitant diabetes or stress hyperglycemia.
Sanjay Kalra, Sameer Aggarwal, Deepak Khandelwal, Deep Dutta   +3 more
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Myocarditis in children presenting with acute febrile illness

Pediatric Review: International Journal of Pediatric Research, 2016
Objective: Myocarditis is the inflammatory disease of myocardium. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of myocarditis in children presenting with acute febrile illness, the frequency of various presenting symptoms, and the accuracy of different investigations in the diagnosis and to know the outcome and etiological agents causing
Dr Shahla Abrar, Dr Mohammed Junaid ansari, Dr Mahima Mittal, Dr Anita Mehta, Dr Bhoopendra Sharma, DR. SHYAMBHAVI SRIVASTAVA, Dr Rachna Bhatnagar, Dr K.P. Kushwaha   +7 more
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Acute febrile illness with choreoathetosis: a rare presentation of brucellosis [PDF]

Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2021
A 15-year-old Indian girl presented with fever and involuntary movements of the limbs and face of about a weeks’ duration. These stereotypic choreoathetosis movements involved both upper limbs, lower limbs and face (figure 1A,B; video 1). No other neurological deficits were noted and cardiorespiratory, abdominal examinations were normal.
Ashok Kumar Pannu, Gauri Jangpangi, Bharath A Chhabria, Vikas Suri, Ashish Bhalla, Savita Kumari   +5 more
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Chikungunya as a cause of acute febrile illness in southern Sri Lanka. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) re-emerged in Sri Lanka in late 2006 after a 40-year hiatus. We sought to identify and characterize acute chikungunya infection (CHIK) in patients presenting with acute undifferentiated febrile illness in unstudied rural and ...
Megan E Reller, Ufuoma Akoroda, Ajith Nagahawatte, Vasantha Devasiri, Wasantha Kodikaarachchi, John J Strouse, Robert Chua, Yan'an Hou, Angelia Chow, October M Sessions, Truls Østbye, Duane J Gubler, Christopher W Woods, Champica Bodinayake   +13 more
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Rickettsial Diseases: Not Uncommon Causes of Acute Febrile Illness in India [PDF]

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2020
Rickettsial diseases (RDs) are major under-diagnosed causes of arthropod borne acute febrile illness (AFI) presenting with a range of symptoms from mild self-limiting fever to fatal sepsis. The spotted fever group (SFG) and typhus group (TG) are major RDs, which are commonly caused by Rickettsia conorii and Rickettsia typhi, respectively.
Manisha Biswal, Sivanantham Krishnamoorthi, Kamlesh Bisht, A. K. Sehgal, Jasleen Kaur, Navneet Sharma, Vikas Suri, Sunil Sethi   +7 more
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A Clinical Study of Acute Kidney Injury in Tropical Acute Febrile Illness

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC RESEARCH, 2016
Tropical Acute Febrile Illness (TAFI) is one of the most common causes of morbidity within the community. Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) due to infective and non infective causes is a major complication. Presence of AKI is a major cause of mortality among patients with TAFI.To study the spectrum of tropical acute febrile illness; the proportion, spectrum ...
Jayalal Jayapalan Nair, Ajay Bhat, Mangalore Venkatraya Prabhu   +2 more
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Uncovering the viral aetiology of undiagnosed acute febrile illness in Uganda using metagenomic sequencing [PDF]

Nature Communications
Viruses associated with acute febrile illness in Africa cause a spectrum of clinical disease from mild to life-threatening. Routine diagnostic methods are insufficient to identify all viral pathogens in this region.
Shirin Ashraf, Hanna Jerome, Daniel Lule Bugembe, Deogratius Ssemwanga, Timothy Byaruhanga, John Timothy Kayiwa, Robert Downing, Jesus F. Salazar-Gonzalez, Maria G. Salazar, James G. Shepherd, Craig Wilkie, Chris Davis, Nicola Logan, Sreenu B. Vattipally, Gavin S. Wilkie, Ana da Silva Filipe, Alfred Ssekagiri, Prossy Namuwulya, Henry Bukenya, Brian K. Kigozi, Weronika Witkowska McConnell, Brian J. Willett, Stephen Balinandi, Julius Lutwama, Pontiano Kaleebu, Josephine Bwogi, Emma C. Thomson   +26 more
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Burden of scrub typhus among patients with acute febrile illness attending tertiary care hospital in Chitwan, Nepal [PDF]

BMJ Open, 2020
Objectives Scrub typhus is an emerging neglected tropical disease, reported from many parts of Asia including Nepal. This study aims to determine the seroepidemiology of scrub typhus among febrile patients attending Chitwan Medical College Teaching ...
Sangita Thapa, Pradip Hamal, Navin Kumar Chaudhary, Lokendra Bahadur Sapkota, Jaya Prasad Singh   +4 more
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Oropouche virus as an emerging cause of acute febrile illness in Colombia. [PDF]

Emerg Microbes Infect, 2022
Arbovirus infections are frequent causes of acute febrile illness (AFI) in tropical countries. We conducted health facility-based AFI surveillance at four sites in Colombia (Cucuta, Cali, Villavicencio, Leticia) during 2019-2022. Demographic, clinical and risk factor data were collected from persons with AFI that consented to participate in the study ...
Ciuoderis KA, Berg MG, Perez LJ, Hadji A, Perez-Restrepo LS, Aristizabal LC, Forberg K, Yamaguchi J, Cardona A, Weiss S, Qiu X, Hernandez-Ortiz JP, Averhoff F, Cloherty GA, Osorio JE.   +14 more
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