Diversity of infectious aetiologies of acute undifferentiated febrile illnesses in south and Southeast Asia: a systematic review

K Wangdi, K Kasturiaratchi, SV Nery, CL Lau… - BMC infectious …, 2019 - Springer
Background Acute undifferentiated febrile illness (AUFI) is caused by a multitude of diverse
pathogens, with significant morbidity and mortality in the developing world. The objective of …

Deployment of ACT antimalarials for treatment of malaria: challenges and opportunities

CJM Whitty, C Chandler, E Ansah, T Leslie… - Malaria journal, 2008 - Springer
Following a long period when the effectiveness of existing mono-therapies for antimalarials
was steadily declining with no clear alternative, most malaria-endemic countries in Africa …

Acute undifferentiated febrile illness in adult hospitalized patients: the disease spectrum and diagnostic predictors–an experience from a tertiary care hospital in South …

A Chrispal, H Boorugu, KG Gopinath… - Tropical …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Local prevalences of individual diseases influence the prioritization of the differential
diagnoses of a clinical syndrome of acute undifferentiated febrile illness (AFI). This study …

[HTML][HTML] Aetiologies of acute undifferentiated febrile illness in adult patients–An experience from a tertiary care hospital in Northern India

G Mittal, S Ahmad, RK Agarwal, M Dhar… - Journal of clinical and …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Aim To describe the aetiology of fever among patients in a tertiary care hospital in Northern
India. Materials and Methods A one-year retro-prospective, observational study was …

Overdiagnosis and mistreatment of malaria among febrile patients at primary healthcare level in Afghanistan: observational study

T Leslie, A Mikhail, I Mayan, M Anwar, S Bakhtash… - Bmj, 2012 - bmj.com
Objective To assess the accuracy of malaria diagnosis and treatment at primary level clinics
in Afghanistan. Design Prospective observational study. Setting 22 clinics in two Afghan …

Diagnostic tools used in the evaluation of acute febrile illness in South India: a scoping review

D Bhaskaran, SS Chadha, S Sarin, R Sen… - BMC infectious …, 2019 - Springer
Background Acute febrile illness (AFI) is characterized by malaise, myalgia and a raised
temperature that is a nonspecific manifestation of infectious diseases in the tropics. The lack …

The community case management of pneumonia in Africa: a review of the evidence

T Druetz, K Siekmans, S Goossens… - Health policy and …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Pneumonia causes around 750 000 child deaths per year in sub-Saharan African (SSA)
countries. The lack of accessibility to prompt and effective treatment is an important …

[PDF][PDF] Acute undifferentiated fever in Asia: a review of the literature

TN Susilawati, WJH McBride - Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical …, 2014 - tm.mahidol.ac.th
Acute undifferentiated fever (AUF) is a temporary febrile illness accompanied by non-
specific symptoms. Previous studies in Asia have primarily focused on delineating specific …

Progress toward multiplexed sample-to-result detection in low resource settings using microfluidic immunoassay cards

L Lafleur, D Stevens, K McKenzie, S Ramachandran… - Lab on a Chip, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
In many low resource settings multiple diseases are endemic. There is a need for
appropriate multi-analyte diagnostics capable of differentiating between diseases that cause …

Challenges in the etiology and diagnosis of acute febrile illness in children in low-and middle-income countries

PY Iroh Tam, SK Obaro, G Storch - Journal of the Pediatric …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Acute febrile illness is a common cause of hospital admission, and its associated infectious
causes contribute to substantial morbidity and death among children worldwide, especially …