Usually, it presents as
acute febrile illness, and multiorgan involvement can be seen.
Objective: To assess the diagnostic accuracy of Typhidot test in patients with
acute febrile illness taking blood culture as gold standard.
Read, M.D., from the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, and colleagues described patients younger than 18 years who were infected with ZIKV and were enrolled in the Sentinel Enhanced Dengue and
Acute Febrile Illness Surveillance System.
Scrub typhus is an
acute febrile illness caused by the organism Orientia tsutsugamushi an obligate intracellular gram-negative coccobacillus.
WHO said two additional cases were then identified through the
Acute Febrile Illness (AFI) and the Antenatal clinic (ANC) surveillance.
KD is an
acute febrile illness diagnosed with fever for >5 days with 4 out of 5 of the following signs: bilateral conjunctival congestion, changes in the lips and oral cavity, polymorphous exanthema, changes in peripheral extremities, acute nonpurulent conjunctivitis, and cervical lymphadenopathy
He said that malaria was an
acute febrile illness, adding, in a non immune individual, symptoms appear seven days or more usually 10 to 15 days after the infective mosquito bite.
Dengue is an
acute febrile illness caused by any of four dengue virus types (DENV-1-4).
Since the incidence of dengue has grown dramatically around the world in recent decades, it typically hits health care systems and disrupts social and economic activity as well." The infectious disease consultant added that dengue fever is an
acute febrile illness caused by aedes aegypti and aedes albopictus, which are "endemic in some parts of Saudi Arabia, including Makkah, Jeddah, and the southern region." Dr.
" Our Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme will track
acute febrile illness through its community and hospital- based data gathering mechanism.
Although skin and soft tissue abscesses are common manifestations of this
acute febrile illness, the most common clinical presentation of melioidosis is acute pneumonia with or without septicemia, which can be fulminant.
Khalid added that Malaria is an
acute febrile illness. In a non-immune individual, symptoms appear seven days or more (usually 10-15 days) after the infective mosquito bite.