Prolonged fever
Ageing Is Associated with a Prolonged Fever Response in Human Endotoxemia
... more prolonged fever response compared to the young ...and prolonged increased levels of ...hyperreactivity, prolonged inflammatory activity, and prolonged fever ...
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Are Children With Kawasaki Disease and Prolonged Fever at Risk for Macrophage Activation Syndrome?
... ABSTRACT. Kawasaki disease (KD) patients are known to be at increased risk for coronary artery lesions. We present evidence of another possible complication associated with KD: macrophage activation syndrome (MAS). In ...
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Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease With Prolonged Fever in Children
... We retrospectively analyzed the medical charts of 12 patients who had KFD and presented with a prolonged fever of ⬎ 10 days. Seven patients were admitted to Catholic University of Korea, Daejeon St Mary’s ...
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Candidemia in patients with prolonged fever in Kashan, Iran
... Background and Purpose: Candida species are considered a common cause of fungal blood stream infections, which are associated with considerable mortality and morbidity rates, especially in the admitted and ...
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Prolonged Fever, Diarrhea, Abdominal Pain, and Joint Pain in a 9-Year- Old Boy
... (HLH). Prolonged fever, presumed to be secondary to cytokine release, is a common presentation for pediatric leukemia and lymphoma and is found in up to 60% of patients at the time of ...sarcoma, ...
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Nonresponders: Prolonged Fever Among Infants With Urinary Tract Infections
... Thirty-one patients (11%) had fever longer than 48 hours and were considered the nonresponders. The balance of patients (n ⫽ 257) defervesced in ⬍ 48 hours and were termed responders. Table 1 com- pares the age, ...
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Prolonged Fever in Children: Review of 100 Cases
... Careful history and physical examinations were helpful but the usual laboratory data (CBC, urinalysis, X-ray) were notably disappointing; however, sedimentation rates and serum protein e[r] ...
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Scrub typhus: as it stands today
... of prolonged fever amongst hospitalized individuals in Southeast Asia and Pacific areas where it is ...of fever amongst travellers returning from the Tsutsugamushi ...typhus fever far and ...
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Utility of clinically directed selective screening to diagnose hiv infection in hospitalised children
... We selected several risk factors that included common clinical features seen in admitted children prolonged fever, severe malnutrition, persistent cough, repeated common infection, gener[r] ...
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Noncaseating suppurative granulomatous lymphadenitis in adult onset Still’s disease – a diagnostic dilemma in a tuberculosis endemic region: a case report
... A 67-year-old Sri Lankan woman was referred by a general practitioner to evaluate high erythrocyte sedimen- tation rate (ESR) incidentally detected while investigating for acute febrile illness. On admission to the ward ...
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Congo fever – a fatal hemorrhagic fever
... Congo fever is a widely distributed vector borne viral disease, seen in different regions of the world. CCHF virus (CCHFV), which belongs to the Nairovirus genus and Bunyaviridae family, is causative agent for ...
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Brucella
... chronic with low grade symptoms of low fever and muscular stiffness, to acute with fever and chills. The fever typically spikes each evening and[r] ...
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Approach to recurrent fever in childhood
... of fever. Although individual periodic fever syndromes are rare, they are extremely important to recognize, as appropriate diagnosis and treatment not only affects short-term morbidity and improves quality ...
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Dialysate color and its role in presumptive diagnosis of dimorphic fungi in peritoneal dialysis associated fungal peritonitis
... peritonitis, prolonged use of antibiotics, prolonged time in the dialysis program, prolonged time with the peritoneal catheter inserted, use of immunosuppressive agents, hospitalization and co- ...
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Drug-resistant enteric fever worldwide, 1990 to 2018: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... Enteric fever has been eliminated in industrialised coun- tries by improving drinking water and sanitation; vaccin- ation can also be deployed to reduce the burden of typhoid fever (there is no vaccine ...
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Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases in Iran
... Q fever seropositivity ranges from 13 to 30% in different provinces in the central and border regions (158, ...Q fever, acting as the reserves and vectors of ...
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Treatment seeking behaviour for malaria in children under five years of age: implication for home management in rural areas with high seasonal transmission in Sudan
... 'high fever, inability to stand or walk, refusal to feed, loss of consciousness, yellowish sclera, severe diarrhoea and repeated vomiting', there is an urgent need for health worker ...
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Potential impact of climate change on emerging vector-borne and other infections in the UK
... Climate is one of several causes of disease emergence. Although half or more of infectious diseases are affected by climate it appears to be a relatively infrequent cause of human disease emergence. Climate mostly ...
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CULTURE AND TRADITIONAL MEDICINE PRACTICE AMONG THE IDOMA PEOPLE OF OTUKPO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF BENUE STATE, NIGERIA
... Boil leaves and inhale to treat fever, bark for treating wounds, root decoction for fever.. 00040.[r] ...
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Biological control of mosquito-borne viral diseases: Prospects and challenges
... Diseases caused by the bite of mosquitoes results in an estimated 1–2 million deaths per year, taking a dramatic toll on health and socio-economic development in affected areas [3]. Mosquitoes can spread diseases more ...
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