Eighty-nine symptomaticase-patientsts were identified with onset of fever (94%), myalgia (91%), headache (87%), and cough (40%) ≤26 days upon return.
Conversely, our data demonstrate that the high specificity of the instrument indicates that if a fever is identified with a temporal artery thermometer then it is likely a true positive.
We reviewed outbreak line lists and interviewed HCWs to identify those with fever or respiratory symptoms with onset from 1 to 14 days after each work shift with identified patients.
It had adopted a Centers for Disease Control screening checklist to identify patients with fever who had travelled from the region of West Africa beset by Ebola.
38– 41 The use of RDTs in identifying children with fever not caused by malaria, may lead to better case management of other diseases and to further mortality reduction.
A novel technology, infrared scanning, was used extensively in some countries to try to identify persons with fever at international borders and in public places.
(Consumption, with its pallor and glittering-eyed fever, was so identified with an ideal of female beauty that young women would attempt to mimic its symptoms, even going so far as to starve themselves or eat sand).
Temperature screening of 13,839,500 travelers entering or leaving Beijing by air, train, or automobile identified 5,097 patients with fever, of whom 12 had probable SARS.
It's no wonder, then, that young readers identify with dystopian fiction and its "fever-dream allegory of the adolescent social experience".
A clinical history was also taken, to identify potential participants with fever, cough, active infectious disease and a diagnosis of any chronic illness.
