ALLMedicine™ Fever Center

Mar 20th, 2023 - Case: A 3-year-old girl presented to the emergency department after a brief seizure at home. She looked well on physical exam except for a fever of 103° F and thick rhinorrhea.

Mar 18th, 2023 - Conventional etiological detection and pathogenic antibody methods make it challenging to identify the atypical pathogens among the community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). Metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) could rapidly detect all potentia...

Mar 18th, 2023 - Dengue has become a major health problem in globally as well as locally. The delay in health-seeking is significantly associated with complications leading to severe dengue and active engagement of communities needs to minimize the delays in manag...

Mar 18th, 2023 - Characterize patient-reported signs and symptoms of urinary tract infections (UTI) in patients with neurogenic bladder (NB) to inform development of an intervention to improve the accuracy of UTI diagnosis. Retrospective cohort study, of adults wi...

Mar 18th, 2023 - Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging infectious disease, which is caused by severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) with high fatality. Recently, the incidence of SFTS increased obviously in Jiangsu P...

Feb 15th, 2023 - NEWS 15 February 2023 Marburg virus outbreak: researchers race to test vaccines Control measures such as quarantine could end the outbreak in Equatorial Guinea quickly — good news for inhabitants but a mixed blessing for clinical trials. Ewen ...

Feb 1st, 2023 - Symptomatic uncomplicated urinary tract infections (uUTI) are one of the most common infections in the United States (US) [1]. They are defined by the presence of dysuria, urinary frequency, urgency, and suprapubic pain in women lacking fever and ...

Nov 28th, 2022 - This document focuses on imaging in the adult and pregnant populations with right lower quadrant (RLQ) abdominal pain, including patients with fever and leukocytosis. Appendicitis remains the most common surgical pathology responsible for RLQ abdo...

Nov 26th, 2022 - Acute rheumatic fever and its chronic sequela, rheumatic heart disease (RHD), pose major health problems globally, and remain the most common cardiovascular disease in children and young people worldwide. Echocardiography is the most important dia...

Aug 17th, 2022 - Just as we are dealing with the probable emergence of fourth wave of COVID-19, a new virus known as tomato flu, or tomato fever, has emerged in India in the state of Kerala in children younger than 5 years.1 The rare viral infection is in an endem...

Mar 10th, 2023 - Myelofibrosis (MF) is a clonal disorder of the pluripotent hematopoietic stem cell in which the abnormal stem cell population releases several cytokines and growth factors into the bone marrow microenvironment, it is pathologically characterized b...

Mar 10th, 2023 - Study Description: The purpose of this multisite study is to collect specimens and data from patients with periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, and cervical adenitis (PFAPA) syndrome and other tonsil disorders for genetic, immunologic...

Mar 10th, 2023 - Background: SARS-CoV-2 has affected almost every country worldwide with regard to health system capacities and economic burden, so far. The typical clinical presentations of COVID-19 are fever, sore through, cough, dyspnea, abdominal pain and diar...

Mar 10th, 2023 - Healsea® Children is a seawater-based nasal spray supplemented with a natural Symbiofilm® extract (0.02%) isolated from marine bacteria. Symbiofilm® is an exopolymeric composition with emulsifying properties, in vitro antibiofilm activity and deta...

Mar 9th, 2023 - The purpose of this research study is to test a weakened form of an experimental dengue virus challenge at different doses to test if participants develop symptoms or circulating virus in the blood (called viremia). When volunteers are exposed to ...

Mar 20th, 2023 - Case: A 3-year-old girl presented to the emergency department after a brief seizure at home. She looked well on physical exam except for a fever of 103° F and thick rhinorrhea.

I’ve been at CDC for 10 years. I work for the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, leading a project that works to identify the best ways to care for people with spina bifida across the lifespan. I work for the National...

Mar 14th, 2023 - To the Editor: The recent global mpox (monkeypox) outbreak that started in May 2022 has distinctive risk factors, clinical features, and patient attributes that can portend dissemination of infection. We report a case of Kaposi varicelliform erupt.

Since October 2021, there has been a yellow fever outbreak in Ghana with numerous cases, including some deaths, in the following regions: Savannah, Upper West, Bono, and Oti.

Mar 8th, 2023 - Comatose out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survivors had similar mortality and disability outcomes with active device-based fever prevention whether for 36 or 72 hours after cardiac arrest, a randomized clinical trial found. At 90 days, there ...