Introduction Febrile illnesses (FI) represent a typical spectrum of diseases in low-resource
settings, either in isolation or with other common symptoms. They contribute substantially to …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the world-changing impact of
infectious diseases to all 7.8 billion people. Our distant ancestors were aware of the …

Background Malaria claims hundreds of thousands of lives each year, most of them children.
A “malaria-free world” is the World Health Organization's vision, but elimination from the …

Background: Investigating the spatial aspects of the disease can help decision-makers and
researchers better understand the pattern of the disease, and is also very important in the …

Abstract The System for Early-warning based on Emergency Data (SEED) is a pilot project to
evaluate the use of emergency call data with the main complaint acute undifferentiated fever …

The importance of a standard based interoperability framework is now widely recognized. In
order to understand the challenges, feasibility and impact of outcomes of such architectures …

Background Persistent fever, defined as fever lasting for 7 days or more at first medical
evaluation, has been hardly investigated as a separate clinical entity in the tropics. This …

This work analyses the performance of the Brazilian spotted fever (SF) surveillance system
in diagnosing and confirming suspected cases in the state of Rio de Janeiro (RJ), from 2007 …

Methods: Spatial statistics tools like Global Moran's I index, Getis-Ord Gi* and Standard
Deviational Ellipse were used in GIS domain for analysis. Results: Spatial distribution …

Introduction Fever commonly leads to healthcare seeking and hospital admission in sub-
Saharan Africa and Asia. There is only limited guidance for clinicians managing non …