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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease malaria
Symptom C0743841|febrile illness
Sentences 31
PubMedID- 25758583 In african countries like gabon, the hiv epidemic has a major influence on the prevalence, severity and outcome of acute febrile illness due to sepsis, malaria or tuberculosis.
PubMedID- 22835018 In fact, a previous study performed in maputo, mozambique, has already evidenced that the fraction of febrile illness attributable to malaria is lower in hiv-positive adults than in hiv-negatives .
PubMedID- 25923210 Similar to previous studies that found malaria being overdiagnosed in patients with acute febrile illness , we found that among participants who could recall their diagnosis, all but one reported being diagnosed with malaria.
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- 26126200 Studies that used an afebrile control group to calculate the fraction of febrile illness attributable to malaria indicate that incidental parasitemia is likely to be particularly common in malaria-endemic areas .
PubMedID- PMC3472350 No clinical features clearly differentiate malaria from other causes of pediatric febrile illness.
PubMedID- 21206901 The additional healthcare costs (us$) per death and per disability adjusted life year (daly) avoided following pre-referral treatment of severe febrile illness with rectal antimalarials, antibacterials or combined antimalarial/antibacterials in populations at malaria risk in ssa/sea were assessed.
PubMedID- 22276105 In lwak, because of a higher expected incidence of febrile illness due to malaria, blood cultures were collected each day from only the first two persons≥5 years old and the first two children <5 years old.
PubMedID- 20352101 The parasitic index in children has fallen from 80% in 1967, to less than 10% in the 90's .
PubMedID- 23927596 It is, therefore, logical to propose implementation of plasmodium screening in blood donation, which was not performed in benin due to costs and lack of technique reliability, still keeping in mind that blood donors who report an undiagnosed and untreated febrile illness consistent with malaria should be deferred until asymptomatic and off the treatment.
PubMedID- 24498476 An analysis of hematological parameters as a diagnostic test for malaria in patients with acute febrile illness: an institutional experience.
PubMedID- 21999636 The change in symptomatology, forgetfulness of malaria as a cause of acute febrile illness and deterioration of the competence of microscopists are all likely to contribute to a delay in the diagnosis.
PubMedID- 21482551 Febrile seizures were defined as seizures in children aged between 1 month and 6 years who had a febrile illness without malaria parasitaemia or evidence of bacterial meningitis (berkley et al., 2001) or encephalitis (cerebrospinal fluid white cell count >50/µl).table 1case definitions for children admitted with acute symptomatic seizures and the number of cases admitted from the demographic surveillance system areacase categorycriterianumber of casesaacute seizuresseizures in the current illness and within 1 week prior to admission4486slide-positive seizuresseizures in children admitted with malaria parasitaemia2762slide-negative seizuresseizures in children admitted without malaria parasitaemia1724repetitive seizuresmore than one seizure in the current illness2181focal seizuresconvulsions localized to one part of the body512definite convulsive status epilepticusseizures lasting >30 min or intermittent seizures for >30 min with a blantyre coma score ≤2 on admission and documented by nursing or medical staff219probable convulsive status epilepticusconvulsions on the way to hospital until admission462a blantyre coma score ≤2 on admission and definite history of a seizure in last 30 minutes or definite history of >10 seizures in last 24 huse of phenytoin or phenobarbital to stop uncontrolled seizurespossible convulsive status epilepticusa blantyre coma score ≤2 on admission and either a definite history of a seizure in last 30 min or possible history of 5–10 seizures in last 24 h266definite history of a seizure lasting 30 mindefinite history of >5 seizures in last 24 hnon-malaria attributable seizuressum of malaria slide-negative seizures and slide-positive seizures not attributable to malaria1844malaria attributable seizuresmalaria slide-positive seizures attributable to malaria2642febrile seizuresseizures in children aged 1 month to 6 years who had a febrile illness without evidence of parasitaemia or bacterial meningitis or encephalitis1126total person-yearsthe total population figures for children were made at the midpoint of the years of study by fitting a log-linear regression line through the observed population counts.689 053athe total numbers identified and summed together for each case category.
PubMedID- 26311240 There is a need for improving diagnostic capacity for non-malaria causes of febrile illness at healthcare delivery points and limiting antibiotic use to patients with definite bacterial infections.
PubMedID- 22269037 Some patients considered testing as a waste of time, or perceived the test results as false, preferring to believe that malaria was the cause of the febrile illness.
PubMedID- 22125593 This group comprised children not requiring admission, who had a documented febrile illness (>37.5°c) with no malaria parasites on a single thick blood film, a negative rapid diagnostic test for malarial antigens (paracheck, orchid biomedical systems, goa, india), and no history of having taken any antimalarial medication in the previous two weeks (n = 32).
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 .
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 .
PubMedID- 23937722 Decreases in the proportion of febrile illnesses associated with malaria in many settings (d'acremont et al.
PubMedID- 22973831 Globally, prostration, neurological symptoms like seizures and pallor are the main clinical forms of malaria among children with acute febrile illness as observed in other endemic countries.
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- 20543656 Objectives: acute febrile illnesses consistent with malaria are the most common presentation at health clinics in sub-saharan africa, accounting for 30-50% of outpatient visits.
PubMedID- 23452321 A retrospective study bucens i and barreto a, unpublished data found that the most common diagnosis on admission of children to the national referral hospital are respiratory tract infection (44%; mainly pneumonia or bronchiolitis) diarrheal disease (17%), febrile illness due to malaria, dengue or central nervous system infection (13%), tuberculosis (9%) and malnutrition (5%).
PubMedID- 23301027 Self-diagnosis of febrile illness with reliable malaria rdts could accelerate early therapy (with the standby treatment), preventing complications and death, or avoid unnecessary use of antimalarials , .
PubMedID- 24386229 The fever guideline specifies that it is to be applied to patients with documented temperature elevation or history of fever in the past 24 hours because malaria, an important cause of febrile illness in mozambique, often presents with intermittent fever .
PubMedID- 24188242 Leptospirosis and malaria as causes of febrile illness during a dengue epidemic in jamaica.
PubMedID- 22000366 The main objective of this study was to develop evidence to guide the management of malaria parasite–negative persons with acute febrile illness and to determine whether such persons were infected with p. knowlesi.
PubMedID- 22681769 A defined as patient or patient’s guardian reporting that the patient had had a febrile illness with a positive malaria slide.
PubMedID- 21143854 For example, when mothers were asked questions about what caused their children's febrile illness, regardless of the malaria diagnosis by physicians, to some of the mothers (34%), their children's illness was caused by teething.
PubMedID- 23809889 The activation stimulus could be the febrile illness associated with acute malaria or a different febrile infection.
PubMedID- 20368815 Acute febrile illnesses, mostly attributable to malaria, are responsible for 400–900 million hospitalizations per year among african children 3.

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