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Dengue and other common causes of acute febrile illness in Asia: an active surveillance study in children. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2013
Common causes of acute febrile illness in tropical countries have similar symptoms, which often mimic those of dengue. Accurate clinical diagnosis can be difficult without laboratory confirmation and disease burden is generally under-reported.
Maria Rosario Capeding, Mary Noreen Chua, Sri Rezeki Hadinegoro, Ismail I H M Hussain, Revathy Nallusamy, Punnee Pitisuttithum, Kusnandi Rusmil, Usa Thisyakorn, Stephen J Thomas, Ngoc Huu Tran, Dewa Nyoman Wirawan, In-Kyu Yoon, Alain Bouckenooghe, Yanee Hutagalung, Thelma Laot, Tram Anh Wartel   +15 more
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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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A general method for estimating the prevalence of Influenza-Like-Symptoms with Wikipedia data [PDF]

PLOS ONE. 16 (2021) 0-20, 2020
Influenza is an acute respiratory seasonal disease that affects millions of people worldwide and causes thousands of deaths in Europe alone. Being able to estimate in a fast and reliable way the impact of an illness on a given country is essential to plan and organize effective countermeasures, which is now possible by leveraging unconventional data ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae from culture-negative dried blood spots by real-time PCR in Nigerian children with acute febrile illness

BMC Research Notes, 2018
Objectives Acute febrile illness is a common cause of hospital admission, and its associated infectious causes, of which a key bacterial causative agent is Streptococcus pneumoniae, contribute to substantial morbidity and mortality. We sought to evaluate
Pui-Ying Iroh Tam, Nelmary Hernandez-Alvarado, Mark R. Schleiss, Amy J. Yi, Fatimah Hassan-Hanga, Chuma Onuchukwu, Dominic Umoru, Stephen K. Obaro   +7 more
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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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Emergence of Epidemic Dengue-1 Virus in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016
BACKGROUND:Dengue is a frequent cause of acute febrile illness with an expanding global distribution. Since the 1960s, dengue in Sri Lanka has been documented primarily along the heavily urbanized western coast with periodic shifting of serotypes ...
Champica K Bodinayake, L Gayani Tillekeratne, Ajith Nagahawatte, Vasantha Devasiri, Wasantha Kodikara Arachichi, John J Strouse, October M Sessions, Ruvini Kurukulasooriya, Anna Uehara, Shiqin Howe, Xin Mei Ong, Sharon Tan, Angelia Chow, Praveen Tummalapalli, Aruna D De Silva, Truls Østbye, Christopher W Woods, Duane J Gubler, Megan E Reller   +18 more
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Etiologies of Acute Undifferentiated Febrile Illness in Bangkok, Thailand [PDF]

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2019
Acute undifferentiated febrile illness (AUFI) has been a diagnostic dilemma in the tropics. Without accurate point-of-care tests, information on local pathogens and clinical parameters is essential for presumptive diagnosis. A prospective hospital-based study was conducted at the Bangkok Hospital for Tropical Diseases from 2013 to 2015 to determine ...
Charin Thawornkuno, Pornsawan Leaungwutiwong, Yupaporn Wattanagoon, Udomsak Silachamroon, Viravarn Luvira, Watcharapong Piyaphanee, Saranath Lawpoolsri, Wirongrong Chierakul   +7 more
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The diagnosis of dengue in patients presenting with acute febrile illness using supervised machine learning and impact of seasonality [PDF]

, 2022
Background: Symptomatic dengue infection can result in a life-threatening shock syndrome and timely diagnosis is essential. Point-of-care tests for non-structural protein 1 and IgM are used widely but performance can be limited. We developed a supervised
Chanh, HQ, Chau, NVV, Georgiou, P, Hernandez, B, Holmes, AH, Ming, DK, Sangkaew, S, Simmons, CP, Tuan, NM, Vuong, NL, Wills, B, Yacoub, S   +11 more
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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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Effect of influenza-induced fever on human bioimpedance values [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is a widely used technique to assess body composition and nutritional status. While bioelectrical values are affected by diverse variables, there has been little research on validation of BIA ...
Blaser MJ, BUFFA, ROBERTO, CABRAS, STEFANO, Contreras M, Dominguez Bello MG, Hidalgo G, Magris M, MARINI, ELISABETTA, Ortiz V, Sanchez W, Urbaez M   +10 more
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