PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | malaria |
| Symptom | |fever |
| Sentences | 120 |
| 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- 22554149 | Background: although early diagnosis and prompt treatment is an important strategy for control of malaria, using fever to initiate presumptive treatment with expensive artemisinin combination therapy is a major challenge; particularly in areas with declining burden of malaria. |
| PubMedID- 26315661 | Reasons for referral included having fever with a negative malaria test (46.8 %), danger signs (29.6 %) and drug shortage (37.4 %). |
| 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- 21631932 | The role of fever in malaria is unclear. |
| PubMedID- 20544032 | Vl was diagnosed in clinical suspects by high titer (≥1∶6,400) antibodies to leishmania (freeze-dried leishmania antigen supplied by the royal tropical institute, amsterdam, the netherlands) in a direct agglutination test (dat); or by microscopy of splenic or lymph node aspirates; or (since 2004) by rk39 rapid diagnostic test (diamed-it-leish supplied by diamed ag, cressier sur morat, switzerland); or on rare occasions when laboratories were not functioning, by clinical judgment (criteria: fever >2 weeks with exclusion of malaria and either splenomegaly or lymphadenopathy and wasting). |
| PubMedID- 25918207 | Community prevalence of fever and relationship with malaria among infants and children in low-resource areas. |
| PubMedID- 21179571 | The proportion of fevers attributable to malaria was persistently lower in children with subjective fever than in children with objective fever. |
| PubMedID- 20659316 | Despite the significant association of fever with malaria parasitaemia, this was of limited usefulness due to the low parasitaemia rate. |
| 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- 23758846 | Nonetheless, this is a cause for concern because presumptive treatment for malaria with fever as a marker is the order of the day amongst most parents in the mount cameroon region. |
| PubMedID- 23977655 | The classic presentation of malaria with paroxysms of fever is seen only in 50-70% of the patients. |
| PubMedID- 23356837 | To improve management of fever patients with a negative malaria test, health care workers in resource-limited settings such as zanzibar will require training and tools to offer alternative diagnoses and management 9. |
| 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- 26407275 | Background: with malaria declining, other causes of fever may account for a substantial portion of severe childhood illness in sub-saharan africa. |
| PubMedID- 23273022 | If non-malarial causes of fever were the aetiology of some of these presentations, malaria incidence may have been overestimated in this cohort. |
| PubMedID- 24885909 | For most of the population (89%), fever with other classical malaria symptoms was an indication to visit a local clinic with a microscopist or other health officer. |
| PubMedID- 23667337 | Accuracy of caregiver recall of key questions of diagnosis and treatment of malaria for children with reported fever in the past 2 wk, by follow-up and social-demographic characteristics, western province, zambia, 2012. |
| PubMedID- 21304921 | Study participants with documented fever or history of recent fever and malaria parasitaemia were treated with coartem. |
| PubMedID- 26087147 | Six initial fgds were used to gather information about community definitions of malaria and other causes of fever and norms around appropriate responses to each of the perceived causes. |
| PubMedID- 25886062 | Conditions associated the neonatal deaths and identified via verbal autopsies were: cord prolapse, obstructed labour, antepartum haemorrhage, mal-presentations, preterm births, malaria and other causes of fever in pregnancy, neonatal tetanus and preeclampsia. |
| 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- 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- 23360508 | Respondents could clearly differentiate fever due to malaria from other fevers and were aware of the complications of malaria if not treated on time. |
| PubMedID- 20691048 | When taking into account cases of fever with any positive malaria diagnostic test, eight malaria attacks were observed during follow-up. |
| 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- 22310820 | A higher parasites load was detected in hiv-infected multigravidae and also the increasing rates of fever due to malaria with the progressive immunosuppression in hiv-infected partients49. |
| PubMedID- 25592811 | 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- 26383920 | All patients who attended the bulbula health centre, with fever and suspected of having uncomplicated malaria, were included in this study. |
| PubMedID- 23350022 | The study included randomly selected cases of acute malaria which presented with fever for within a week caused either by plasmodium falciparum (pf), vivax (pv) or dual infection (pv+pf) that were retrieved from the archives of the laboratory. |
| PubMedID- 20370920 | The presence of fever in conjunction with a positive malaria smear correlated with parasite density in p. falciparum infections (f1,34 = 8.48, p = 0.006), but not in p. vivax infections (f1,77 = 1.89, p = 0.174). |
| PubMedID- 24069477 | Nevertheless, in this study, the crp did not allow to differentiate malaria from other causes of fever in travelers. |
| 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- 22972057 | Objectives: we aimed to assess whether treatments to reduce fever in malaria influence the course of the illness. |
| 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- 26198252 | An active case detection survey targeting individuals with fever suspected of having a malaria infection was carried out in some malaria endemic districts of the tehama region in both the hodeidah and al-mahwit governorates, yemen. |
| PubMedID- 22853699 | Furthermore, since syndromic treatment of fever with empiric anti-malarial therapy is not uncommon, persons with fever from hiv-1 or its complications could be more likely to receive empiric intermittent anti-malarial therapy for other disease states which might further lower the prevalence of sub-clinical malaria in this group. |
| PubMedID- 25963402 | Episodes of fever were attributable to p. falciparum malaria clinical attacks when parasite density was higher than an age-dependent threshold . |
| 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- 23336125 | Comparisons were performed using reference material and samples from a cohort of fever patients with potential imported malaria in bergen, norway. |
| PubMedID- 24564957 | 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- 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- 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- 20574538 | Study subjects with documented fever or history of recent fever and malaria parasitaemia were treated with coartem™. |
| PubMedID- 22047131 | Thirdly, this will encourage health care providers to search for alternative causes of fever in malaria-negative patients, and particularly those that can become dangerous or even fatal if treatment is delayed . |
| 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- 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- 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- 24748035 | Mixed infections of plasmodium falciparum, the agent of the most malignant form of malaria, lead to less frequent fever episodes in young subjects . |