eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | hyperthermia |
| Comorbidity | C0024530|malaria |
| Sentences | 147 |
| PubMedID- 22708051 | The proportion of fevers that are attributable to malaria is represented by the af.fp=0.32 or 32%fp0=0.11 or 11%.af=(0.32-0.11)/0.32=0.63. |
| 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- 25312201 | Results: the results showed that all the interviewees believed that children got malaria infection along with fever or fever and other symptoms. |
| PubMedID- 21812948 | Prescribing practices eligible for inclusion were practices for febrile patients with parasitologically-confirmed malaria or where a presumptive malaria diagnosis was made. |
| PubMedID- 23372285 | Placental malaria prevalence of infestation amongst febrile pregnant women in central india: maternal and perinatal outcome. |
| PubMedID- 21206901 | The percentage of severe febrile patients treated with a rectal antimalarial who do not have malaria was set at 26%, based on data from gomes et al. |
| PubMedID- 20368815 | Percent of febrile episodes attributable to malaria, cut-off parasite densities, and sensitivity and specificity of the cut-off densities for this site have been described elsewhere [46]. |
| PubMedID- 24498476 | An analysis of hematological parameters as a diagnostic test for malaria in patients with acute febrile illness: an institutional experience. |
| PubMedID- 20169070 | This could be the sweating due to fever associated with the malaria infection might attract the additional mosquitoes bites. |
| PubMedID- 21092176 | Despite the sample size and other limitations, it is clear that large proportions of children exit from each step in the treatment pathway, and that intervention is required at multiple steps to increase the proportion of febrile children with malaria receiving prompt and effective treatment in the study area. |
| PubMedID- 26016871 | Results: rdt diagnosis of plasmodium vivax and plasmodium falciparum malaria in patients with uncomplicated febrile illness had higher effectiveness and lower cost compared to microscopy and was cost-effective across the moderate and low transmission settings. |
| PubMedID- 22443344 | Results: among 190 febrile children with suspected malaria who visited chws between february 2009 and february 2010, 89.5% were found to be positive for malaria parasites by pcr, 51.6% were positive by microscopy and 55.8% were positive by rdt. |
| PubMedID- 23231707 | For example, studies in tanzania, ghana, and zambia showed that around 50% of febrile patients with negative malaria tests in the public sector were prescribed anti-malarials[22,23]. |
| PubMedID- 21699697 | Exclusion criteria were infants under six months, pregnant women, vivax malaria co-infections, cases with other febrile illness, parasitaemia outside the range of 1000-100,000 asexual parasites/μl, or severe malaria. |
| PubMedID- 22558429 | On the use of herbal preparations, it has been estimated that the first line treatment for 60% of children with fever resulting from malaria in ghana, mali, nigeria and zambia is the use of herbal medicine at home [33]. |
| PubMedID- 21268544 | This work evaluated the clinical and parasitic status of malaria as a cause of fever among patients admitted to the military fever hospitals. |
| 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- 24200365 | The essential clue for the diagnosis of malaria in febrile patients is an accurate history of malaria exposure in endemic areas. |
| 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- 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- 25861012 | While malaria as a cause of severe childhood febrile illnesses declines, recent research emphasises the prevalence of other causes of infection as primary causes of fever and the importance of these infections in hospital admissions, especially in africa [1–4]. |
| PubMedID- 24885311 | Caution must, therefore, be directed to ascribing to va methods an ability to distinguish malaria from other causes of febrile illnesses that are common in the african context [31]. |
| 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- 25073561 | febrile patients with negative malaria laboratory test results were managed with artemether-lumefantrine or chloroquine in 51% (53/104) of assessed health facilities. |
| PubMedID- 25584420 | The results in table 2 showed that majority of the women (84.98%) associated fever with malaria, while 44.17% associated it with chilling. |
| PubMedID- 26407275 | Background: with malaria declining, other causes of fever may account for a substantial portion of severe childhood illness in sub-saharan africa. |
| PubMedID- 20609211 | In addition to the af, the population attributable fraction (paf) was also estimated, defined as the proportion of fevers attributable to malaria infection among all patients with fever, to assess the burden of disease in the whole population, and obtained by multiplying the af by the prevalence of malaria infection among all febrile patients (prevmal): paf = af(prevmal). |
| PubMedID- 20398428 | The aetiology of fevers in malaria endemic areas has been the subject of considerable basic and applied public health research for many years. |
| PubMedID- 23029433 | Considering all fever episodes associated with malaria parasites as clinical attacks overestimated p. |
| PubMedID- 25538366 | Predictors of malaria in febrile children in sokoto, nigeria. |
| PubMedID- 21693031 | Samples were collected from febrile patients with suspected malaria infections between july 2008 and august 2009. following the acquisition of written consent, blood was draw into a heparin treated vacuum tube, 70 μl of whole blood was spotted onto filter paper (whatman, s & s 903), air dried and stored at -20°c. |
| PubMedID- 22469234 | At higher altitudes, workers began to report fevers attributed to malaria (14). |
| PubMedID- 23198986 | Awareness by health professionals should increase so that any infant aged under 6 months brought to a health facility in a malaria-endemic area with unexplained fever or suspected sepsis should be systematically screened for malaria. |
| PubMedID- 20625548 | In this study, therefore, the researchers use a mathematical model to estimate the number of childhood fevers associated with malaria infection that presented to africa's public clinics in 2007 from survey data. |
| 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- 24009783 | As part of a study investigating the aetiology of fever among patients with negative malaria tests, we recruited patients at salavan provincial hospital, salavan province, southern laos [3]. |
| 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- 25963402 | Episodes of fever were attributable to p. falciparum malaria clinical attacks when parasite density was higher than an age-dependent threshold [14]. |
| PubMedID- 21851640 | In malaria-endemic countries, the diagnosis of non-malarial causes of fever is critical to prevent morbidity and mortality, particularly from bacterial infections. |
| PubMedID- 23493007 | We aimed to assess whether complete blood indices would increase the probability of malaria in patients with acute febrile illness. |
| PubMedID- 24088525 | Every febrile patient with possible malaria should be diagnosed with quality microscopy or rdt and, if found positive, should be treated with a full course of act (artesunate three days + sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine one day) and pq for p. falciparum, and with cq (for three days) and pq (14 days) for plasmodium vivax cases. |
| PubMedID- 24581282 | In 1810, a physician of this zone reported that whereas many diseases other than malaria could end with intermittent fevers, these fevers could either precede these same diseases or accompany them [20]. |
| PubMedID- 25649228 | Two cross-sectional studies performed in cameroon in 2000 and 2004 indicate a slight reduction in the pediatric prevalence of asymptomatic carriage, but found no change in malaria prevalence in patients with fever [25]. |
| PubMedID- 21179571 | The proportion of fevers attributable to malaria was persistently lower in children with subjective fever than in children with objective fever. |
| 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- 24555424 | To reduce the fever associated with malaria especially in young children, the bark diospyros scabra is boiled and the patient is bathed in the concoction. |
| PubMedID- 24548672 | Only four of the ten studies reporting case series of febrile children with all severity malaria included data on case fatality rates for both malaria and malaria/ibi groups [5,35,40,41] (see table 4). |
| PubMedID- 25918207 | Community prevalence of fever and relationship with malaria among infants and children in low-resource areas. |
| PubMedID- 22727184 | Conclusion: about half of the acutely febrile children presented with severe malaria, the majority being cases of severe malaria anaemia, followed by respiratory distress and cerebral malaria. |
| PubMedID- 22972057 | Objectives: we aimed to assess whether treatments to reduce fever in malaria influence the course of the illness. |