ALLMedicine™ Fever Center

May 21st, 2022 - COVID-19 illness is highly variable, ranging from infection with no symptoms through to pneumonia and life-threatening consequences. Symptoms such as fever, cough, or loss of sense of smell (anosmia) or taste (ageusia), can help flag early on if t...

May 21st, 2022 - Zika virus (ZIKV) is an arbovirus belonging to the flavivirus genus and is transmitted in Aedes mosquito vectors. Since its discovery in humans in 1952 in Uganda, ZIKV has been responsible for many outbreaks in South America, Africa, and Asia. Pat...

May 21st, 2022 - A 62-year-old man presented with headache, fever, and malaise. He was diagnosed with Anaplasma phagocytophilum, confirmed by serum polymerase chain reaction, and started on oral doxycycline. After 5 days of treatment, the patient began to experien...

May 21st, 2022 - Bullous pemphigoid is the most common chronic recurrent autoimmune subepidermal blistering disorder most prevalent in geriatric population. It varies widely in clinical presentation ranging from tense bullae to intense generalized pruritus. It is ...

May 21st, 2022 - COVID-19 and tuberculosis (TB) are infectious diseases that predominantly affect the respiratory system with common symptoms such as cough, fever, and shortness of breath, making them dual burdens. This review will discuss the characteristics of t...

Feb 9th, 2022 - The aim of these guidelines is to provide evidence‑based guidance for temperature control in adults who are comatose after resuscitation from either in-hospital or out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, regardless of the underlying cardiac rhythm. These ...

Jul 21st, 2021 - This guideline addresses the evaluation and management of well-appearing, term infants, 8 to 60 days of age, with fever ≥38.0°C. Exclusions are noted. After a commissioned evidence-based review by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, an...

Feb 11th, 2021 - Side effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines include pain at the injection site, fatigue, headache, myalgias, arthralgias, chills, and fever, all of which can be early indicators of an increased need for glucocorticoid replacem...

Dec 6th, 2020 - To provide guidance on the management of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), a condition characterized by fever, inflammation, and multiorgan dysfunction that manifests late in the course of severe acute respiratory syndrome cor...

Nov 25th, 2020 - Patients with cancer are at higher risk of more severe COVID-19 infection and have more associated complications. The position paper describes the management of cancer patients, especially those receiving anticancer treatment, during the COVID-19 ...

May 20th, 2022 - BACKGROUND: KSHV inflammatory cytokine syndrome (KICS) is a newly recognized syndrome caused by Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV). It is characterized by severe inflammatory symptoms including fevers, wasting, cytopenias, hypoalbuminemi...

May 20th, 2022 - Background: Multiple myeloma (MM) is a malignancy of plasma cells. MM is nearly always incurable. T cells can be genetically modified to express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) that specifically target malignancy-associated antigens. Autologous ...

May 20th, 2022 - In West Africa, as many as 300,000 people are infected annually with Lassa virus (LASV), resulting in approximately 5,000 deaths. Most commonly, human infection comes from contact with infected rodent hosts (Mastomys natalensis), or ingestion or i...

May 20th, 2022 - Background: Hairy cell leukemia (HCL) is an indolent B-cell leukemia comprising 2% of all leukemias, or approximately 1900 new cases/year in the US. The nucleoside analogs cladribine and pentostatin are highly active as monotherapy with complete r...

May 19th, 2022 - Subjects will be randomized to up to four arms: artemether-lumefantrine + amodiaquine, artemether-lumefantrine + placebo, artesunate-mefloquine + piperaquine and artesunate-mefloquine + placebo. As a contingency measure in case of significant diff...

May 20th, 2022 - JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Several outbreaks of monkey pox in Africa have been contained during the COVID pandemic while the world's attention was elsewhere, and outbreaks in Europe and the United States are a concern, Africa's top public health age...

May 20th, 2022 - MONTREAL (Reuters) - Montreal public health officials said on Thursday they are investigating 17 suspected cases of monkeypox virus infections, adding to the growing number of cases of the rare virus reported globally. Several countries including ...

May 20th, 2022 - PARIS (Reuters) - A first suspected case of the monkeypox virus on French territory has been detected in the Paris/Ile-de-France region, the French Health Ministry said on Thursday (https://bit.ly/3sEsq6Q), amid signs of the virus' spreading aroun...

May 20th, 2022 - After 2 years of a pandemic in which traveling was barely possible, tropical diseases are becoming important once more. At this year's conference for internal medicine specialists, tropical medicine specialist Fritz Holst, MD, of the Center for Tr...

May 19th, 2022 - LISBON (Reuters) - Portuguese authorities said on Wednesday they had identified five cases of rare monkeypox infection and Spain's health services are testing 23 potential cases after Britain put Europe on alert for the virus. The five Portuguese ...