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Undiagnosed Acute Viral Febrile Illnesses, Sierra Leone

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014
Sierra Leone in West Africa is in a Lassa fever-hyperendemic region that also includes Guinea and Liberia. Each year, suspected Lassa fever cases result in submission of ≈500-700 samples to the Kenema Government Hospital Lassa Diagnostic Laboratory in eastern Sierra Leone.
Randal J. Schoepp, Cynthia A. Rossi, Sheik H. Khan, Augustine Goba, Joseph N. Fair   +4 more
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Fatal acute undifferentiated febrile illness among clinically suspected leptospirosis cases in Colombia, 2016-2019.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2023
BackgroundAcute undifferentiated febrile illness is a common challenge for clinicians, especially in tropical and subtropical countries. Incorrect or delayed diagnosis of febrile patients may result in medical complications or preventable deaths.
Eliana L Parra Barrera, Jhonatan Reales-González, Daniela Salas, Elizabeth Reyes Santamaría, Solmara Bello, Angélica Rico, Lissethe Pardo, Edgar Parra, Karina Rodriguez, Zonía Alarcon, Angela Patricia Guerra Vega, Mayra A Porras, Sergio Yebrail Gomez-Rangel, Carolina Duarte, Jaime Moreno   +14 more
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An observational prospective cohort study of the epidemiology of hospitalized patients with acute febrile illness in Indonesia

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020
Background The epidemiology of acute febrile illness, a common cause of hospitalization in Indonesia, has not been systematically studied. Methodology/Principal findings This prospective observational study enrolled febrile patients (temperature ≥38°C ...
M. H. Gasem, H. Kosasih, E. Tjitra, B. Alisjahbana, M. Karyana, Dewi Lokida, A. Neal, Jason Liang, A. T. Aman, M. Arif, P. Sudarmono, Suharto, T. Merati, V. Lisdawati, Siswanto, S. Siddiqui, H. Lane   +16 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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Sarcoidosis Presenting as Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. [PDF]

, 2018
Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disease of unknown origin. It typically involves the lungs and mediastinal lymph nodes in a chronic fashion. However, acute syndrome has been reported possibly in response to systemic release of proinflammatory ...
Chan, Vincent, Lashari, Bilal, Raza, Ahmad, Ward, William   +3 more
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Point-of-Care Biomarkers to Guide Antibiotic Prescription for Acute Febrile Illness in Sub-Saharan Africa: Promises and Caveats

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.
J. van Griensven, L. Cnops, Anja De Weggheleire, Steven Declercq, E. Bottieau   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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Healthcare Utilization Patterns for Acute Febrile Illness in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan: Results from the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project

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.
J. Andrews, K. Vaidya, S. Saha, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, C. Hemlock, A. Longley, K. Aiemjoy, A. Yu, I. Bogoch, D. Tamrakar, K. Date, S. Saha, D. Garrett, S. Luby, F. Qamar   +14 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
doaj   +1 more source

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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