Prior to the present study, the detailed documentation of fever characteristics, particularly fevers measuring ≥40.0°C, has been scant.
Associations between fever characteristics and patient outcomes have attracted particular interest in recent years.
The intermittent fevers, characteristic of malaria infection, are attributed to cycles of erythrocyte invasion, asexual reproduction by schizogony, and release of asexual parasites (merozoites) after rupture of infected red blood cells.
Nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and fever are characteristic.
Primary varicella infection, also called chickenpox, is a common benign illness caused by varicella-zoster virus (VZV), typically associated with fever and characteristic exanthematous vesicular skin rash.
The fever and characteristic vegetations (a mixture of bacteria and blood clots on heart valves) are frequently absent, making diagnosis difficult [ 1].
This contributed to the differential diagnosis of VL in cases of fever, a characteristic manifestation in all regions including non-endemic regions [ 38].
We found that broad-spectrum prescribing was less likely in those children with ear pain and was not associated with age or fever; factors characteristic of more severe infections that might have justified broader coverage [ 40, 41].
And after the onset of dengue's characteristic fever that varies widely in temperature, antibodies do not appear in significant levels for days, meaning doctors cannot use conventional blood tests to detect the virus until the worst is already over.
The thermometer was popularized by German physician Karl August Wunderlich, who thought, incorrectly, that every disease had its own characteristic fever pattern.
Portraits filled with existential anguish, often of a sitter (or sitters – he often paints pairs) that he has known for decades; railway junctions, chock-full of the fever of their characteristic comings and goings; building sites; street scenes; the occasional wild patternings of a teeming public swimming pool.
