An Incidental Finding of Whipple’s Disease Masquerading as Nonspecific, Long-Standing Symptoms by Thomas Tuggle, Alison I. Orvin, Christian Caveness, Christopher Ingram

“…The disease may progress with more systemic symptoms including arthralgia, fever, lymphadenopathy, cardiovascular disease, and central nervous system involvement. …”
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A temporary cholesterol-rich diet and bacterial extracellular matrix factors favor Salmonella spp. biofilm formation in the cecum by Alonso Cruz-Cruz, Megan E. Schreeg, John S. Gunn

“…A greater understanding of these mechanisms will allow the formulation of new therapeutic strategies specifically targeted at preventing typhoid fever dissemination from chronic carriers.…”
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Maternal Infections, Antibiotics, Steroid Use, and Diabetes Mellitus Increase Risk of Early-Onset Sepsis in Preterm Neonates: A Nationwide Population-Based Study by Hao-Yuan Lee, Yu-Lung Hsu, Wen-Yuan Lee, Kuang-Hua Huang, Ming-Luen Tsai, Chyi-Liang Chen, Yu-Chia Chang, Hung-Chih Lin

“…Effective treatment of maternal conditions like diabetes, fever, and infections is essential to prevent EOS in preterm infants. …”
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Nocardiosis in Renal Allograft Recipients by Chilaka Rajesh, Athul Thomas, Jeethu Joseph Eapen, Sabina Yusuf, Elenjickal Elias John, Anna T. Valson, Suceena Alexander, Vinoi George David, Joy Sarojini Michael, Santosh Varughese

“…Half (50%) of the patients had fever and cough as their initial presentation, 7 (26.9%) patients presented with cutaneous abscesses, 2 (7.6%) patients were incidentally detected to have lung nodules during routine follow-up, 2 (7.6%) patients presented with headache accompanied by fever, and 3.8% had graft abscess. …”
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Knowledge about COVID-19 and Practices among Hemodialysis Technicians in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era by Amit S. Pasari, Amol Bhawane, Manish R. Balwani, Priyanka Tolani, Vishal Ramteke, Nishant Deshpande

“…Most of the respondents could correctly identify fever (87.8%), breathlessness (86.08%), and dry cough (81.7%) as the symptoms of COVID-19 infection. 75.7% of the technicians were aware that it can be transmitted by asymptomatic persons. 61.1% of the technicians were segregating patients who had symptoms such as fever and cough to the last shift of the day. 81.1% of the technicians read the guidelines issued by the Indian Society of Nephrology—COVID-19 working group. …”
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Survival Status and Predictors of Mortality among Newborns Admitted with Neonatal Sepsis at Public Hospitals in Ethiopia by Samuel Dessu, Aklilu Habte, Tamirat Melis, Mesfin Gebremedhin

“…Having a history of intrapartum fever (AHR: 14.5; 95% CI: 4.25, 49.5), history of chorioamnionitis (AHR: 5.7; 95% CI: 2.29, 13.98), induced labor (AHR: 7; 95% CI: 2.32, 21.08), and not initiating exclusive breastfeeding within one hour (AHR: 3.4; 95% CI: 1.34, 12.63) were the independent predictors of mortality. …”
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Case report: Adult case of A20 haploinsufficiency suspected as neuro-Behçet disease by Harumi Shirai, Naoko Saito-Sato, Naoko Saito-Sato, Emiko Horiuchi, Hirotoshi Kikuchi, Saori Kadowaki, Hidenori Ohnishi, Takeshi Suzuki

“…A gene panel test for periodic fever syndromes revealed a variant in the TNFAIP3 gene, showing a c.259C>T nonsense variant. …”
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Emerging Risk to Dengue in Asian Metropolitan Areas Under Global Warming by Cheng Jing, Guojie Wang, Kristie L. Ebi, Buda Su, Xiaoming Wang, Dong Chen, Tong Jiang, Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz

“…This is of concern because these mosquitoes can carry dengue fever and other viral diseases. Changing weather patterns can also increase the numbers of Aedes mosquitoes, leading to greater human exposure and enhancing population health risks. …”
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Factors influencing the unexpected measles outbreak of 2023 in Colombo, Sri Lanka by Kasunee Kalubowila, Chandana Gajanayake

“…Results: Of the 142 notified cases of fever and maculopapular rash, 113 were confirmed as measles (79.6%). …”
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Clinical and immunological features of rotavirus infection in children infected with herpesviruses by M.Yu. Sliepchenko, O.M. Olkhovska, Ya.V. Kolesnyk, A.V. Gavrylov

“…In patients with lHVI caused by HHV-6, fever, diarrhea, and catarrhal syndrome persisted longer against the background of reduced levels of IRI, CD22+ T cells, and IgM. …”
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Leveraging Real-World Evidence to Define Severe RSV Lower Respiratory Tract Disease in Adults by Catherine A. Panozzo, Edward E. Walsh, Zhen Yang, Eleanor Wilson, Jaya Goswami, Sonia K. Stoszek, Adrianna Loback, Tony Ng, Beverly M. Francis, Alana K. Simorellis, Wenmei Huang, Linwei Li, Rebecca Vislay-Wade, Zhe Zheng, Evan J. Anderson, Allison August, Grace Chen, Ann R. Falsey

“…RSV-LRTD signs/symptoms assessed included shortness of breath (dyspnea), cough and/or fever, wheezing/rales/rhonchi (abnormal lung sounds by auscultation), sputum production, tachypnea, hypoxemia, and pleuritic chest pain. …”
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Epidemiological Features, Clinical Symptoms, and Environmental Risk Factors for Notifiable Japanese Encephalitis in Taiwan From 2008 to 2020: Retrospective Study by Fu-Huang Lin, Yu-Ching Chou, Chi-Jeng Hsieh, Chia-Peng Yu

“…Additionally, the major clinical manifestations of the cases included fever, unconsciousness, headache, stiff necks, psychological symptoms, vomiting, and meningitis. …”
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Comparative Study of Chikungunya Only and Chikungunya-Scrub Typhus Coinfection in Children: Findings from a Hospital-Based Observational Study from Central Nepal by Santosh Pathak, Nagendra Chaudhary, Prativa Dhakal, Sanjay Ray Yadav, Binod Kumar Gupta, Om Prakash Kurmi

“…Chikungunya and scrub typhus infection are important causes of undifferentiated fever in tropical zones. The clinical manifestations in both conditions are nonspecific and often overlap. …”
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Clinical and Hematological Manifestation of Dengue Patients in 2022 Outbreak: A Tertiary Care Hospital‐Based Cross‐Sectional Study by Md. Jubayer Hossain, Manisha Das, Muhibullah Shahjahan, Md. Wahidul Islam, Syeda Tasneem Towhid

“…Methods This quantitative cross‐sectional study at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital classified 67 dengue‐positive patients as having dengue fever (DF), dengue fever with warning signs (DFWS), and severe dengue (SD). …”
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Transarterial radioembolization versus chemoembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma: a meta-analysis by Wenxiao Lu, Tongsheng Zhang, Fengfei Xia, Xiangzhong Huang, Fulei Gao, Fulei Gao

“…Furthermore, rates of complications including fever and abdominal pain were also reduced in the TARE group (P = 0.006 and 0.02, respectively). …”
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The burden of group A Streptococcus (GAS) infections: The challenge continues in the twenty-first century by Aswin Thacharodi, Saqib Hassan, Avadh Vithlani, Tawfeeq Ahmed, Sanjana Kavish, Nicole-Mae Geli Blacknell, Ali Alqahtani, Arivalagan Pugazhendhi

“…GAS infections are normally moderate, with symptoms of fever, pharyngitis, and pyoderma; nevertheless, if left untreated or with continued exposure to GAS or with recurring infections it can result in fatal outcomes. …”
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Observation of a case of mass diarrhea and related integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine nursing (1起群体性腹泻的病情观察及中西医护理体会) by LI Yuncui (李运翠), TANG Ling (唐玲), LI Ye (李野), WANG Liangmin (王梁敏), ZHAO Dandan (赵丹丹), QI Wenjing (綦文婧)

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Clinical characteristics and associated factors of pediatric acute necrotizing encephalopathy: a retrospective study by Huiling Zhang, Yilong Wang, Qianyun Ding, Xuekun Li, Sheng Ye

“…Results In this cohort of 34 patients, the most common symptoms were fever, seizures, altered consciousness, vomiting, diarrhea and shock. …”
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Case Report: Novel ADA2 variants cause atypical adenosine deaminase 2 deficiency by Haishao Yu, Haishao Yu, Shuangzhu Lin, Lin Li, Jiayi Li, Qiandui Chen, Yuheng Wu, Yangfan Qi, Wanqi Wang, Xingzhi Chang, Jie Zhang

“…Case presentationA girl aged 2 years and 5 months presented to the hospital with chief complaints of intermittent fever and weakness of the left limb for more than 1 month. …”
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Bortezomib Use for a Critically Ill Patient with Angioimmunoblastic T-Cell Lymphoma by Motoharu Shibusawa

“…Bortezomib was thus administered, which resulted in a reduction in lymphadenopathies, the disappearance of tumor fever, and a decrease in serum lactate dehydrogenase levels. …”
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