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Unusual oral expulsion of adult Taenia worm through vomiting

Clinical Case Reports, 2021
A 49‐year‐old woman with a history of abdominal discomfort and raw beef intake vomited a long adult Taenia after an episode of acute febrile illness. This case report describes that Taeniasis can rarely present with oral expulsion of the tapeworm.
Saud Mohammed Raja
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Acute Febrile Illness in Immunocompetent Adults with Special Reference to Neutropaenia: A Cross-sectional Study [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022
Introduction: Fever is a common symptom with multifactorial aetiologies. In tropical country like India, most of the cases of acute febrile illness are due to seasonal viral diseases and vector-borne infections.
Pusala Varun Narayana, Bhumika Vaishnav, S Bharath Gowda, Prasanna Kumar Satpathy, Prashant Gopal, Nimmagadda Nikitha   +5 more
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Rickettsial Diseases: Not Uncommon Causes of Acute Febrile Illness in India

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.
M. Biswal, S. Krishnamoorthi, K. Bisht, A. Sehgal, Jasleen Kaur, N. Sharma, V. Suri, S. Sethi   +7 more
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Increasing prevalence of malaria and acute dengue virus coinfection in Africa: a meta-analysis and meta-regression of cross-sectional studies

Malaria Journal, 2023
Background Malaria and dengue fever are the leading causes of acute, undifferentiated febrile illness. In Africa, misdiagnosis of dengue fever as malaria is a common scenario.
Tewelde T. Gebremariam, Henk D. F. H. Schallig, Zeleke M. Kurmane, Jonas B. Danquah   +3 more
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Approach to acute febrile illness during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Drug Discoveries & Therapeutics, 2020
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a febrile respiratory illness that has spread rampantly across the globe and has emerged as one of the biggest pandemics of all time.
Manasvini Bhatt, M. Soneja, N. Gupta
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Murine Typhus: A Review of a Reemerging Flea-Borne Rickettsiosis with Potential for Neurologic Manifestations and Sequalae

Infectious Disease Reports, 2023
Murine typhus is an acute febrile illness caused by Rickettsia typhi, an obligately intracellular Gram-negative coccobacillus. Rats (Rattus species) and their fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) serve as the reservoir and vector of R. typhi, respectively.
Lucas S. Blanton
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Diagnosis of Murine Typhus by Serology in Peninsular Malaysia: A Case Report Where Rickettsial Illnesses, Leptospirosis and Dengue Co-Circulate

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2019
Murine typhus is a rarely diagnosed cause of acute febrile illness in Malaysia, and its true disease burden is unknown. We report a case of an acute murine typhus infection in a patient living in a small city in Peninsular Malaysia, presenting with fever,
Yazli Yuhana, Ampai Tanganuchitcharnchai, Pimpan Sujariyakul, Piengchan Sonthayanon, Kesinee Chotivanich, Daniel H. Paris, Sasithon Pukrittayakamee, Stuart D. Blacksell, Borimas Hanboonkunupakarn   +8 more
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Imported diseases in travellers presenting to the emergency department after a stay in a malaria-endemic country: a retrospective observational study

Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines, 2023
Background We aimed to investigate the aetiology and outcomes of illnesses in patients presenting to an emergency department after travelling to a malaria-endemic country, in order to raise awareness of both tropical and cosmopolitan diseases.
Sofie Desmet, Liesbet Henckaerts, Sien Ombelet, Benjamin Damanet, Peter Vanbrabant   +4 more
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Rickettsioses as Major Etiologies of Unrecognized Acute Febrile Illness, Sabah, East Malaysia

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
Because acute rickettsioses are common, underrecognized, and untreated etiologies of these illnesses, empirical doxycycline treatment should be considered.
M. Grigg, T. William, Emily G. Clemens, Kaajal Patel, Arjun Chandna, C. Wilkes, Bridget E. Barber, N. Anstey, J. Dumler, T. Yeo, T. Yeo, M. Reller   +11 more
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Europe's contribution to the evaluation of the use of systemic antimicrobials in the treatment of periodontitis

Periodontology 2000, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract This narrative review celebrates Europe's contribution to the current knowledge on systemically administered antimicrobials in periodontal treatment. Periodontitis is the most frequent chronic noncommunicable human disease. It is caused by dysbiotic bacterial biofilms and is commonly treated with subgingival instrumentation.
David Herrera, Arie Jan van Winkelhoff, Paula Matesanz, Katalina Lauwens, Wim Teughels   +4 more
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