Increasing evidence is becoming available on the aetiology and management of fevers in Asia; the importance of these fevers has increased with the decline in the incidence of malaria.
This study has underlined the importance of typhoid fever, leptospirosis, dengue, and rickettsial infections in the Jayapura area in patients with few helpful physical signs.
Clinicians emphasised the importance of auscultation, fever, discoloured sputum and breathlessness, general impression of the illness course, familiarity with the patient, comorbidity, and age in informing their antibiotic prescribing decisions for LRTI.
The increasing global importance of Rift Valley fever (RVF) is clearly demonstrated by its geographical expansion.
Given the importance of cholera and fevers during this period, such a value system would automatically count more highly the opinions of practitioners who had served overseas, where those diseases were more prevalent.
13 Recent studies have drawn attention to the importance of antimicrobial-resistant typhoid fever in Cambodia in Southeast Asia.
The clinical presentation of dengue might be slightly different in Latin America than observed in Southeast Asia, because of the importance of non-dengue hemorrhagic fever syndromes for disease morbidity [ 8, 16].
Water, sanitation and hygiene: UNICEF will produce mass media materials to reach 7.4 million people with messages on the importance of cholera and/or haemorrhagic fever prevention and early treatment.
Two new diseases are exemplary of the importance of his work, Marburg hemorrhagic fever and Lassa fever.
The results of this study highlight the importance of investigating the real effects of fever in severe sepsis or septic shock.
