eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | malaria |
| Symptom | |fever |
| Sentences | 103 |
| PubMedID- 25902716 | Between july and december 2013 a further seven individuals, who had been screened at least once during the acd programme and tested negative for malaria, presented with fever to the same dgh and were diagnosed with p. vivax malaria. |
| PubMedID- 24748035 | Mixed infections of plasmodium falciparum, the agent of the most malignant form of malaria, lead to less frequent fever episodes in young subjects . |
| PubMedID- 21599880 | For this, clinical skills (but not necessarily physicians) are irreplaceable, in order to differentiate malaria from other causes of acute fever, such as benign viral infection or potentially dangerous conditions, which can all be present with the parasite co-existing only as a "commensal" or silent undesirable guest. |
| PubMedID- 22972057 | Objectives: we aimed to assess whether treatments to reduce fever in malaria influence the course of the illness. |
| PubMedID- 25588165 | A multivariate regression model has been developed that utilized raman spectra of 20 malaria-infected, 10 non-malarial with fever, 10 healthy, and 6 dengue-infected samples to optically predict the malaria infection. |
| PubMedID- 21529365 | The strategy of presumptive treatment of all fevers with anti-malarials leads clinicians to believe that all fevers are due to malaria, resulting in a massive over-diagnosis , and more importantly to ignoring non-malaria causes of fever that have similar, or even higher case fatality rates than malaria . |
| PubMedID- 22958592 | In conclusion, urinary tract infections caused by multi drug resistant escherichia coli was identified as the most common cause of fever, which co-existed with malaria and bacteremia. |
| PubMedID- 25963402 | Episodes of fever were attributable to p. falciparum malaria clinical attacks when parasite density was higher than an age-dependent threshold . |
| PubMedID- 25150266 | The first patient of plasmodium falciparum malaria presented with fever and altered sensorium; mri of the brain suggested cerebral venous thrombosis. |
| PubMedID- 26529984 | Asia was the most common area visited by returning travelers with fevers (89% of dengue, 18.6% of malaria, and 100% of enteric fever cases), followed by africa (1.2% of dengue and 70.9% of malaria cases). |
| PubMedID- 23899336 | In our study 5% of fever cases were due to malaria, all of which involved p. falciparum infections. |
| PubMedID- 21057136 | Studies were included that had patients suspected of having acute malaria (usually because of fever) and compared the presence or absence of clinical findings with blood smear confirmation. |
| PubMedID- 23014581 | It is verydifferent to the fevers associated with malaria, and one male informant described it inthe following way: ‘mgonzo is a fever, a very strong fever. |
| PubMedID- 23941585 | Written consent was obtained from all participating volunteers, who were vaccinated against yellow fever and provided with malaria prevention and curative treatments according to world health organization (who) recommended regimen (on the basis of fever and detectable p. falciparum parasitemia). |
| PubMedID- 20624312 | Presumptive treatment of fever with anti-malarials is widely practised to reduce malaria-attributable morbidity and mortality especially at lower level health facilities where microscopy is not readily available . |
| PubMedID- 23922770 | The probability of fever being due to malaria was assumed the same in the aggregated analysis but set to reflect the reduction in malaria incidence seen in tanzania. |
| PubMedID- 21499691 | The rupture of the schizont and release of merozoites give rise to the so-called malaria paroxysms with spiking fever and rigors. |
| PubMedID- 23217163 | In tropical africa, the differentiation of malaria from other causes of fever in the absence of microscopy is notoriously difficult. |
| PubMedID- 25802432 | However, with the roll back malaria initiative, the causes of fever in africa may change. |
| PubMedID- 22952642 | Since 2007, testing is recommended only for fever cases with malaria-related history and symptoms - body aches, joint pain, headache, nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea. |
| PubMedID- 21750697 | However, based on the rdt results, at least 50% of patients during the cd weeks did not have malaria as cause of fever and were potentially therefore incorrectly treated with act only. |
| PubMedID- 20169070 | This could be the sweating due to fever associated with the malaria infection might attract the additional mosquitoes bites. |
| PubMedID- 21645402 | Uncomplicated malaria generally presents with fever, malaise, and other non-specific symptoms; distinguishing malaria from other febrile illnesses based on clinical presentation is challenging . |
| PubMedID- 22846165 | Children with symptoms and signs of malaria including: fever, chills, malaise, headache, vomiting or other systemic complaints were included in this study after informed consent was obtained from the parents/adolescent themselves. |
| PubMedID- 24816572 | Background: in uganda, community services for febrile children are expanding from presumptive treatment of fever with anti-malarials through the home-based management of fever (hbmf) programme, to include treatment for malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia through integrated community case management (iccm). |
| PubMedID- 21453493 | fever was also associated with malaria infection in univariate analysis (p = 0.003), but this association was not significant anymore in multivariate analysis (aor = 1.6; p = 0.069). |
| PubMedID- 21054891 | The results of this study suggest that it is worthwhile to perform blood films on hospitalized neonates with fever in malaria endemic regions since though it is rare, congenital and neonatal malaria does occur. |
| PubMedID- 22035466 | This can, for instance, be done through discussion platforms for clinicians about alternative management of fever with a negative malaria test. |
| PubMedID- 21687657 | Adult patients presenting in kapit district, malaysian borneo with fever and suspected of having malaria were recruited into this study between july 2006 and february 2009 and subsequently confirmed by pcr to carry single species plasmodium infections 3. |
| PubMedID- 20659316 | Despite the significant association of fever with malaria parasitaemia, this was of limited usefulness due to the low parasitaemia rate. |
| PubMedID- 23866313 | The patient came to the regional malaria base with fever and chills. |
| PubMedID- 20691048 | When taking into account cases of fever with any positive malaria diagnostic test, eight malaria attacks were observed during follow-up. |
| PubMedID- 23356837 | The availability of rapid diagnostic tests (rdts) allows rural health workers to reliably rule out malaria in fever patients. |
| PubMedID- 21304925 | This threshold has previously been shown to be of value in differentiating symptomatic malaria from other causes of fever with coincidental parasitaemia . |
| PubMedID- 21545737 | She gave birth to a growth restricted live born singleton boy without congenital abnormality of 2,540 (±10) grams at a gestational age of 41+1 weeks (<10th percentile) on 19 december 2008. on the day of registration (d0) she presented with fever and was diagnosed with p. vivax malaria on the presence of asexual forms in peripheral blood (parasitaemia 9294/μl). |
| PubMedID- 24596021 | "comment: some of the authors are employed by the trial sponsors but all authors had access to data and assumed responsibility for reporting accuracy.ringwald 1996methodstrial design: randomized, parallel group, active controlled trialduration of trial: recruitment: april 1994 to may 1995participantsnumber randomized: 96age: 15 to 64 yearsgender: 42 males; 54 femalesinclusion criteria:acute falciparum malaria with fever within the past 24 hrs or a temperature above 37.5 °c at the time of consultationover 5000 asexual parasites/µlno signs and symptoms of severe and complicated malariano recent self-medicationexclusion criteria:pregnant womenmixed infectionsinterventionsintervention1. |
| PubMedID- 22073155 | The proportions of fever due to malaria in children <5 years were 11% in the community and 17% in the health centre surveys in the wet season. |
| PubMedID- 24180319 | In view of this, travel history as well as past history of acquiring malaria in patients with fever must be recorded in detail to assist in the diagnosis and management of travellers’ malaria and severe malaria. |
| PubMedID- 24722554 | With growing awareness of the over-diagnosis and misclassification of malaria as the cause of fever illnesses in the tropics, including africa, there is increased interest in the role of non-malarial causes of fever, such as c. burnetii. |
| PubMedID- 21575152 | Results of multivariate regression analysis of the association of fever with malaria when controlled for gender, age, residence, use of insecticide treated nets (itn) and wealth quintile. |
| PubMedID- 20925921 | Houses where at least one member had experienced symptoms of malaria including fever and/or convulsions in the previous four weeks were included in the study. |
| PubMedID- 22589226 | As the rdt represents a cost in addition to the cost of medication, it may be perceived as unaffordable if the customer believes that the fever is probably due to malaria or that the best way to diagnose a disease is by trying different drugs until one of these removes symptoms (chandler et al. |
| PubMedID- 21970433 | Respondents reported mosquitoes, the sun and fever as main cause of malaria in children; however, a positive association with sep was only found for mosquitoes, tiredness and dirty water. |
| PubMedID- 25141554 | Awareness and practices of 101 consecutive clinically suspected malaria cases (presenting with fever) attending medical opd in satyawadi raja harishchandra hospital, narela in north west district of delhi regarding malaria were assessed using a 37 item pre-tested, semi-structured, semi-open ended, and investigator administered questionnaire. |
| PubMedID- 20339579 | A total of 18 health workers out of 25 (72%) confirmed that they prescribed treatment in the absence of laboratory diagnosis arguing that fever is strongly associated with malaria in an endemic area, and such an attitude allows to exclude for the patient thick and thin blood film cost which is officially charged 0.76 usd. |
| PubMedID- 21824389 | But there are malaria cases with high fever who can take oral medication, or cases with fever and diarrhea not thought to be due to malaria. |
| PubMedID- 20624306 | This proportion of fever due to non-malaria diseases is likely to increase over time given the current commitment to malaria programmes that are targeting malaria elimination. |
| PubMedID- 23174525 | The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of confirmed malaria among patients with fever in the central highlands of madagascar, the clinical utility of treating this fever, and the involvement of community general practitioners in improving malaria management. |
| PubMedID- 21085872 | In areas of dengue transmission, delay in the diagnosis and treatment of malaria in patients with fever who reside in areas of malaria transmission can be due to the confusion between the clinical diagnoses of both diseases by nonspecialist doctors, among other factors. |
| PubMedID- 21179571 | The proportion of fevers attributable to malaria was persistently lower in children with subjective fever than in children with objective fever. |