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ILI was defined as a case-patient with fever (measured or reported) with cough and/or sore throat.
*ARI, acute respiratory infection; ILI, influenza-like illness (fever measured or subjective and cough or sore throat).
Prodromal fever were defined in 2 different ways: patients reporting a measured fever ≥ 37.5°C during prodromal period; any fever (measured or subjective) during prodromal period [ 21, 22].
Our results indicated no association between fever (measured and subjective) and shedding duration (p = 0.65) or between viral load and shedding duration (p = 0.74).
On the day of the serosurvey 71 (32.4%) of 219 children had fever (measured body temperature >38°C or reported fever within the previous 48 hours).
We included an objective method to study the effect of adenoidectomy that is, fever measured daily by a validated thermometer that automatically stored data.
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Use of ITIS to identify travellers at high risk of fever, measuring the core temperature of ITIS-positive travellers, and then taking specimens from those with high core temperatures would have failed to identify all the influenza-infected travellers in this study.
An acute respiratory illness with onset in the 7 days prior to hospital admission, that results in hospitalization over night and includes: History of fever or measured fever of ≥ 38°C, AND cough, AND shortness of breath or difficulty breathing.
The ILI case definition has evolved over time, with the current WHO surveillance case definition being an acute respiratory illness with onset during the last 10 days with history of fever or measured fever of ≥ 38.0C and cough [ 29].
Prior to the present study, the detailed documentation of fever characteristics, particularly fevers measuring ≥40.0°C, has been scant.
Within ambulatory clinics, ILI was defined as presence of fever (either measured temperature >99.9°F, or fever as a reason for visit) plus reason for visit of cough, "flu" or influenza, or ILI-related International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, encounter diagnosis (codes 079.99, 466.0, 487.1, 382.00, 465.9).
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