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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.
Manisha Biswal, Sivanantham Krishnamoorthi, Kamlesh Bisht, A. K. Sehgal, Jasleen Kaur, Navneet Sharma, Vikas Suri, Sunil Sethi   +7 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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Rickettsial Infections Are Neglected Causes of Acute Febrile Illness in Teluk Intan, Peninsular Malaysia

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022
Rickettsial infections are among the leading etiologies of acute febrile illness in Southeast Asia. However, recent data from Malaysia are limited. This prospective study was conducted in Teluk Intan, Peninsular Malaysia, during January to December 2016.
Muhamad Yazli Yuhana, Borimas Hanboonkunupakarn, Ampai Tanganuchitcharnchai, Pimpan Sujariyakul, Piengchan Sonthayanon, Kesinee Chotivanich, Sasithon Pukrittayakamee, Stuart D. Blacksell, Daniel H. Paris   +8 more
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Differences in GlycA and lipoprotein particle parameters may help distinguish acute kawasaki disease from other febrile illnesses in children [PDF]

, 2016
BackgroundGlycosylation patterns of serum proteins, such as α1-acid glycoprotein, are modified during an acute phase reaction. The response of acute Kawasaki disease (KD) patients to IVIG treatment has been linked to sialic acid levels on native IgG ...
Margery A. Connelly, Chisato Shimizu, Deborah A. Winegar, Irina Shalaurova, Ray Pourfarzib, James D. Otvos, John T. Kanegaye, Adriana H. Tremoulet, Jane C. Burns   +8 more
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Investigating the etiology of acute febrile illness: a prospective clinic-based study in Uganda. [PDF]

BMC Infect Dis, 2023
Background Historically, malaria has been the predominant cause of acute febrile illness (AFI) in sub-Saharan Africa. However, during the last two decades, malaria incidence has declined due to concerted public health control efforts, including the ...
Kigozi BK, Kharod GA, Bukenya H, Shadomy SV, Haberling DL, Stoddard RA, Galloway RL, Tushabe P, Nankya A, Nsibambi T, Mbidde EK, Lutwama JJ, Perniciaro JL, Nicholson WL, Bower WA, Bwogi J, Blaney DD.   +16 more
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Healthcare Utilization Patterns for Acute Febrile Illness in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan: Results from the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project [PDF]

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2020
Background Characterizing healthcare-seeking patterns for acute febrile illness is critical for generating population-based enteric fever incidence estimates from facility-based surveillance data.
Jason R. Andrews, Krista Vaidya, Shampa Saha, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Caitlin Hemlock, Ashley T Longley, Kristen Aiemjoy, Alexander T. Yu, Isaac I. Bogoch, Dipesh Tamrakar, Kashmira Date, Samir K. Saha, Denise O. Garrett, Stephen P. Luby, Farah Naz Qamar   +14 more
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Point of care biomarkers to guide antibiotic prescription for acute febrile illness in sub-Saharan Africa: promises and caveats [PDF]

Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2020
Empiric malaria treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa has significantly decreased with the scaling-up of malaria rapid diagnostic tests; this coincided with a pronounced increase in empiric antibiotic prescriptions.
Johan van Griensven, Lieselotte Cnops, Anja De Weggheleire, Steven Declercq, Emmanuel Bottieau   +4 more
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Oropouche infection a neglected arbovirus in patients with acute febrile illness from the Peruvian coast [PDF]

BMC Research Notes, 2020
To evaluate the frequency of infection caused by the Oropouche virus (OROV) in 496 patients with acute febrile disease (AFI), whose samples were obtained for the analysis of endemic arboviruses in a previous investigation carried out in 2016.
Johanna Martins-Luna, Juana del Valle-Mendoza, Wilmer Silva-Caso, Isabel Sandoval, Luís J. del Valle, Carlos Palomares-Reyes, Hugo Carrillo‐Ng, Isaac Peña-Tuesta, Miguel Ángel Aguilar-Luis   +8 more
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Seroprevalence of scrub typhus among patients with acute febrile illness: A study from northern districts of West Bengal [PDF]

J Family Med Prim Care
Background: Scrub typhus is a re-emerging acute febrile illness with a high case fatality rate. Early clinical features are nonspecific and resemble any acute febrile illness, with or without skin rash creating clinical dilemmas. Untreated or undiagnosed
Hazra S, Dutta A, Moitra S, Das S, Mallick S, Sarkar A, Pradhan B, Chakraborty A, Bhowmick D, Saha A.   +9 more
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Arboviruses as an unappreciated cause of non-malarial acute febrile illness in the Dschang Health District of western Cameroon

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022
Acute febrile illness is a common problem managed by clinicians and health systems globally, particularly in the Tropics. In many regions, malaria is a leading and potentially deadly cause of fever; however, myriad alternative etiologies exist ...
Innocent Mbulli Ali, Valery P. K. Tchuenkam, Mia Colton, Victoria Stittleburg, Cedar L. Mitchell, Claudia Gaither, Kyaw L. Thwai, Daniel Espinoza, Yerun Zhu, Haaris Jamal, Autum Key, Jonathan J. Juliano, Tume B. Christopher, Anne Piantadosi, Jesse J. Waggoner, Matthew H. Collins   +15 more
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