Sentence examples for possible fever from inspiring English sources

First the new arrivals walked in front of an infrared camera that measured the temperature of each person's skin and clothing; a health worker carefully watched a computer screen attached to the camera for the faces showing in red, indicating possible fever.

Therefore, many persons with possible fever would have to be identified before a case of influenza was detected, and screening for fever is unlikely to be sensitive enough to detect sufficient numbers of influenza cases to prevent or slow the importation of a pandemic strain.

NoVs are the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) in both adults and children and are characterized by an incubation period of 1 2 days and acute onset of non-bloody diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal cramps with possible fever, malaise and anorexia [ 1– 5].

Sensitivity (the proportion of those with confirmed fever who were identified as febrile by ITDS) and specificity (the proportion of those without confirmed fever who were identified as nonfebrile by ITDS) were calculated and used to plot the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves for all possible fever temperature thresholds on each ITDS.

Other possible fever-causing agents for which we did not test include Leptospira spp., Rickettsia spp., Brucella spp., and viral agents of encephalitis (11, 15 ).

After patients' informed consent was obtained, blood samples were collected from persons whose condition met the following case definition for possible chikungunya fever: acute onset of fever >38.5°C, accompanied by severe arthralgia not explained by other medical conditions (6 ).

A neurologist, and an MRI, found nothing amiss; her gynaecologist suggested possible glandular fever, which was also soon discounted.

Doxycycline was prescribed for possible Q fever.

Patients with possible DF (fever, mild thrombocytopenia with platelets >100,000/mm) were not admitted and were treated as outpatients.

Treatment with intravenous ceftriaxone was begun for possible typhoid fever, and artemether/lumefantrine was continued for presumptive malaria.

Serum samples from several patients admitted in 2003 were stored at –80°C for further diagnostic testing for a possible hemorrhagic fever agent.