Acute Febrile Illness (AFI) is a sudden onset of fever lasting less than two weeks with unclear cause at presentation. It may result from bacterial, viral, parasitic, or systemic infections. Careful ...

A 1-hour sample-to-answer, molecular device successfully detected common causative pathogens of acute febrile illness with high positive and negative percent agreement directly in whole blood, ...

Acute abdominal pain and fever could signify diverticulitis In older patients who complain of fever and lower abdominal pain, consider diverticulitis, especially if the patient has a previous ...

A 3-year-old boy presented to his family provider’s office for evaluation of acute onset of fever, with a temperature of 102°F (38.9°C), which began 2 days ago. He also complained of malaise, along ...

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 175, No. 3 (Mar., 1997), pp. 700-703 (4 pages) Cerebrospinal fluid samples collected from 23 children with neurologic symptoms, such as febrile seizures, ...

The epidemiology, symptomology, and viral aetiology of endemie influenza remain largely uncharacterized in Cambodia. In December 2006, we established passive hospital-based surveillance to identify ...

A new grant will strengthen the surveillance of acute febrile illnesses in Africa by using high-throughput DNA sequencing techniques allowing for the precise identification of the pathogens involved.

PATIENTS who are convalescing from rheumatic fever either do or do not have heart disease. Of those who do not, some will later have signs of it. The studies 1–5 that demonstrated this phenomenon ...