Fever

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 2006 update of recommendations for the use of white blood cell growth factors: an evidence-based clinical practice guideline. 
  • 2010 update of EORTC guidelines for the use of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor to reduce the incidence of chemotherapy-induced febrile neutropenia in adult patients with lymphoproliferative disorders and solid tumours. 
  • 3,4-Diaryl-5-hydroxyfuranones: highly selective inhibitors of cyclooxygenase-2 with aqueous solubility. 
  • A Novel Truncated Form of Serum Amyloid A in Kawasaki Disease. 
  • A Phase II trial of gemcitabine and mitoxantrone for patients with acute myeloid leukemia in first relapse. 
  • A boy with fever and whorl keratopathy. 
  • A diagnostic algorithm combining clinical and molecular data distinguishes Kawasaki disease from other febrile illnesses. 
  • A fatal x-linked recessive reticuloendothelial syndrome with hyperglobulinemia. X-linked recessive reticuloendotheliosis. 
  • A hospital-based prevalence survey of bloodstream infections in febrile patients in Malawi: implications for diagnosis and therapy. 
  • A national assessment of the epidemiology of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, China. 
  • A phase I study of the safety and pharmacokinetics of edotecarin (J-107088), a novel topoisomerase I inhibitor, in patients with advanced solid tumors. 
  • A returning traveler with fever and rash. 
  • A selective inhibitor of cyclooxygenase-2 reverses endotoxin-induced pyretic responses in non-human primates. 
  • A seven-month-old infant with fever and neutrophilic leukocytosis. 
  • A single dose of live oral cholera vaccine CVD 103-HgR is safe and immunogenic in HIV-infected and HIV-noninfected adults in Mali. 
  • A study of parent/grandparent education for managing a febrile illness using the CALM approach. 
  • Acetaminophen versus Ibuprofen in Young Children with Mild Persistent Asthma. 
  • Actionable diagnosis of neuroleptospirosis by next-generation sequencing. 
  • Admission Temperature and Associated Mortality and Morbidity among Moderately and Extremely Preterm Infants. 
  • Adriamycin in the treatment of childhood acute leukemia. A Southwest Oncology Group study. 
  • Adriamycin in the treatment of childhood solid tumors. A Southwest Oncology Group study. 
  • Agammaglobulinemia, neutropenia, fever, and abdominal pain. 
  • Age, dose, and environmental temperature are risk factors for topiramate-related hyperthermia. 
  • Alternating ibuprofen and acetaminophen in the treatment of febrile children: a pilot study [ISRCTN30487061]. 
  • An innovative pay-for-performance (P4P) strategy for improving malaria management in rural Kenya: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. 
  • An under-recognized influenza epidemic identified by rapid influenza testing, southern Sri Lanka, 2013. 
  • Antibody-coated erythrocytes induce secretion of tumor necrosis factor by human monocytes: a mechanism for the production of fever by incompatible transfusions. 
  • Aortoesophageal fistula after thoracic aortic stent-graft placement: a rare but catastrophic complication of a novel emerging technique. 
  • Biochemical and pharmacological profile of a tetrasubstituted furanone as a highly selective COX-2 inhibitor. 
  • Bloodstream Infections and Frequency of Pretreatment Associated With Age and Hospitalization Status in Sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Body temperature is a poor predictor of malaria parasitaemia in children with acute diarrhoea. 
  • Boy With Fever and Cough. 
  • Brief report: The declining incidence of cerebral hyperthermia during cardiac surgery: a seven-year experience in 6,334 patients. 
  • Brucellosis among hospitalized febrile patients in northern Tanzania. 
  • CXCL10/IP-10 is a biomarker and mediator for Kawasaki disease. 
  • Campylobacter enteritis: clinical and epidemiologic features. 
  • Case 2: fever, rash and pulmonary involvement. Diagnosis: Kawasaki disease. 
  • Cases from the Osler Medical Service at Johns Hopkins University. 
  • Characteristics of acute febrile illness and determinants of illness recovery among adults presenting to Singapore primary care clinics. 
  • Chemotherapy-induced neutropenia: risks, consequences, and new directions for its management. 
  • Chest radiography for predicting the cause of febrile illness among inpatients in Moshi, Tanzania. 
  • Chikungunya and dengue fever among hospitalized febrile patients in northern Tanzania. 
  • Children with Cough and Fever: Up-to-date Imaging Evaluation and Management. 
  • Clinical manifestations of new versus recrudescent malaria infections following anti-malarial drug treatment. 
  • Clinical problem-solving. Taken out of context. 
  • Clinical trial: interferon alpha-2b continuous long-term therapy vs. repeated 24-week cycles for re-treating chronic hepatitis C. 
  • Clostridium difficile infection in obstetric and gynecologic patients. 
  • Colony stimulating factors for chemotherapy induced febrile neutropenia. 
  • Colony-stimulating factors for chemotherapy-induced febrile neutropenia: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. 
  • Comparing actual and perceived causes of fever among community members in a low malaria transmission setting in northern Tanzania. 
  • Comparison of pegfilgrastim with filgrastim on febrile neutropenia, grade IV neutropenia and bone pain: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. 
  • Comparison of the Estimated Incidence of Acute Leptospirosis in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania between 2007-08 and 2012-14. 
  • Comparison of the safety and immunogenicity of a refrigerator-stable versus a frozen formulation of ProQuad (measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella virus vaccine live). 
  • Contribution of urinary tract infection to the burden of febrile illnesses in young children in rural Kenya. 
  • Coping with crowds: density-dependent disease resistance in desert locusts. 
  • Coronary Artery Complication in Kawasaki Disease and the Importance of Early Intervention : A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. 
  • Cost effectiveness of myeloid growth factors in cancer chemotherapy. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of primary versus secondary prophylaxis with pegfilgrastim in women with early-stage breast cancer receiving chemotherapy. 
  • Costs associated with febrile neutropenia in the US. 
  • Cytokine secretion after cardiac surgery and its relationship to postoperative fever. 
  • Decision analysis of hematopoietic growth factor use in patients receiving cancer chemotherapy. 
  • Diagnosing pulmonic valve infective endocarditis with positron emission tomography-CT. 
  • Discretizing large traceable vessels and using DE-MRI perfusion maps yields numerical temperature contours that match the MR noninvasive measurements. 
  • Discriminating fever behavior in house flies. 
  • Disruption of Fgf13 causes synaptic excitatory-inhibitory imbalance and genetic epilepsy and febrile seizures plus. 
  • Does This Child Have Pneumonia?: The Rational Clinical Examination Systematic Review. 
  • Early-onset stroke and vasculopathy associated with mutations in ADA2. 
  • Economic and radiation costs of initial imaging approaches after a child's first febrile urinary tract infection. 
  • Economic impact of granulopoiesis stimulating agents on the management of febrile neutropenia. 
  • Effect of outpatient treatment of febrile neutropenia on the risk threshold for the use of CSF in patients with cancer treated with chemotherapy. 
  • Efficacy and tolerability of 16% subcutaneous immunoglobulin compared with 20% subcutaneous immunoglobulin in primary antibody deficiency. 
  • Efficacy of liposomes and hyperthermia in a human tumor xenograft model: importance of triggered drug release. 
  • Elevated temperature after hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy: risk factor for adverse outcomes. 
  • Emergence of Epidemic Dengue-1 Virus in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. 
  • Emergency department visits by children with sickle hemoglobinopathies: factors associated with hospital admission. 
  • Emergency management of the patient with seizures. 1. Classification and treatment system, common seizure disorders. 
  • Endotoxemia associated with the Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction. 
  • Environmental Hyperthermia in Prehospital Patients with Major Traumatic Brain Injury. 
  • Epidemiologic and genetic aspects of spina bifida and other neural tube defects. 
  • Equal antipyretic effectiveness of oral and rectal acetaminophen: a randomized controlled trial [ISRCTN11886401]. 
  • Etiology of pediatric fever in western Kenya: a case-control study of falciparum malaria, respiratory viruses, and streptococcal pharyngitis. 
  • Evaluation of anti-pyretic potential of Ficus racemosa bark. 
  • Evaluation of anti-pyretic potential of Jussiaea suffruticosa L. extract in rats. 
  • Evaluation of in-hospital management for febrile illness in Northern Tanzania before and after 2010 World Health Organization Guidelines for the treatment of malaria. 
  • Evaluation of the WHO 2009 classification for diagnosis of acute dengue in a large cohort of adults and children in Sri Lanka during a dengue-1 epidemic. 
  • Fast temperature optimization of multi-source hyperthermia applicators with reduced-order modeling of 'virtual sources'. 
  • Fatal Mycobacterium tuberculosis bloodstream infections in febrile hospitalized adults in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 
  • Febrile neutropenia and related complications in breast cancer patients receiving pegfilgrastim primary prophylaxis versus current practice neutropaenia management: results from an integrated analysis. 
  • Fever and Rash in a Patient With Hepatitis. 
  • Fever and an expanding pancreatic fluid collection. 
  • Fever and human immunodeficiency virus infection as sentinels for emerging mycobacterial and fungal bloodstream infections in hospitalized patients >/=15 years old, Bangkok. 
  • Fever in patients with mixed-species malaria. 
  • Fever, episcleritis, epistaxis, and rash after safari holiday in Swaziland. 
  • Fever: blessing or curse? 
  • First Identification and Description of Rickettsioses and Q Fever as Causes of Acute Febrile Illness in Nicaragua. 
  • G-CSF as prophylaxis of febrile neutropenia in SCLC. 
  • Gametocytemia in Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum infections. 
  • Guideline for the management of fever and neutropenia in children with cancer and/or undergoing hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation. 
  • Heterogeneity in health seeking behaviour for treatment, prevention and urgent care in four districts in western Kenya. 
  • High prevalence of malaria parasitemia and anemia among hospitalized children in Rakai, Uganda. 
  • Histoplasmosis among hospitalized febrile patients in northern Tanzania. 
  • Host-pathogen interactions in a varying environment: temperature, behavioural fever and fitness. 
  • Hot in the Tropics. 
  • Hyperammonemia associated with perinatal asphyxia. 
  • Hyperthermia and nanotechnology - a note from the Editor-in-chief. 
  • Immune fever in the rabbit: responses of the hematologic and complement systems. 
  • Impact of primary prophylaxis with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor on febrile neutropenia and mortality in adult cancer patients receiving chemotherapy: a systematic review. 
  • Impacts of fever on locust life-history traits: costs or benefits? 
  • Incidence of invasive salmonella disease in sub-Saharan Africa: a multicentre population-based surveillance study. 
  • Increased resistance of tumor cells to hyperthermia mediated by integrin-linked kinase. 
  • Institutional experience with voriconazole compared with liposomal amphotericin B as empiric therapy for febrile neutropenia. 
  • Invasive bacterial and fungal infections among hospitalized HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected children and infants in northern Tanzania. 
  • Label-free oxygen-metabolic photoacoustic microscopy in vivo. 
  • Legionella as a cause of hyperpyrexia. 
  • Leptospirosis among hospitalized febrile patients in northern Tanzania. 
  • Leptospirosis and human immunodeficiency virus co-infection among febrile inpatients in northern Tanzania. 
  • Leptospirosis as frequent cause of acute febrile illness in southern Sri Lanka. 
  • Limb tourniquets and central temperature in anesthetized children. 
  • Lipid formulations of amphotericin B for empirical treatment of fever and neutropenia. 
  • Lithium carbonate in patients with small cell lung cancer receiving combination chemotherapy. 
  • Lithotrites and Postoperative Fever: Does Lithotrite Type Matter? Results from the Clinical Research Office of the Endourological Society Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy Global Study 
  • Magnetic resonance imaging evidence of hippocampal injury after prolonged focal febrile convulsions. 
  • Malaria vaccine efficacy: the difficulty of detecting and diagnosing malaria. 
  • Management of adolescents and adults with febrile illness in resource limited areas. 
  • Management of intrauterine fetal death with prostaglandin E2 vaginal suppositories. 
  • Melatonin regulates energy balance and attenuates fever in Siberian hamsters. 
  • Middle ear effusion in adult ICU patients: a cohort study. 
  • Midtrimester abortion induced by serial intramuscular injections of 15(S)-15-methyl-prostaglandin E2 methyl ester. 
  • Mixed messages: modulation of inflammation and immune responses by prostaglandins and thromboxanes. 
  • Molecular detection and analysis of spotted fever group Rickettsia in patients with fever and rash at a tertiary care centre in Tamil Nadu, India. 
  • Mortality rates in comparative trials of formulations of amphotericin B. 
  • Murine typhus and febrile illness, Nepal. 
  • Myeloid growth factors clinical practice guidelines in oncology. 
  • Myeloid growth factors. 
  • Myeloid growth factors. 
  • Neonatal bacterial infection alters fever to live and simulated infections in adulthood. 
  • Neuroprotective effect of NMDA receptor glycine recognition site antagonism persists when brain temperature is controlled. 
  • Noncardiogenic pulmonary edema and rhabdomyolsis after protamine administration in a patient with unrecognized McArdle's disease. 
  • Nonfebrile illness seizures: a unique seizure category? 
  • Oral glutamine enhances heat shock protein expression and improves survival following hyperthermia. 
  • Outbreak of febrile respiratory illness associated with human adenovirus type 14p1 in Gansu Province, China. 
  • Outcome of Pediatric Gastroenterology Outpatients With Fever and Central Line. 
  • Parental Approach to the Prevention and Management of Fever and Pain Following Childhood Immunizations: A Survey Study. 
  • Pathology and pathophysiology of uterine smooth-muscle tumors. 
  • Perioperative temperature and cardiac surgery. 
  • Personalized medicine and cancer supportive care: appropriate use of colony-stimulating factor support of chemotherapy. 
  • Pharmacoeconomics of the myeloid growth factors: a critical and systematic review. 
  • Phase I evaluation of mitoxantrone alone and combined with whole body hyperthermia in dogs with lymphoma. 
  • Phase II study of (90)Y Ibritumomab tiuxetan (Zevalin) in patients with previously untreated marginal zone lymphoma. 
  • Photo quiz. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. 
  • Platelet transfusion reactions: febrile nonhemolytic reaction or bacterial contamination? Diagnosis, detection, and current preventive modalities. 
  • Point-of-care differentiation of Kawasaki disease from other febrile illnesses. 
  • Postoperative hyperthermia following off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass surgery. 
  • Postoperative hyperthermia is associated with cognitive dysfunction after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Practice patterns in percutaneous image-guided intraabdominal abscess drainage: survey of academic and private practice centers. 
  • Pre-engraftment syndrome after myeloablative dual umbilical cord blood transplantation: risk factors and response to treatment. 
  • Predicting individual risk of neutropenic complications in patients receiving cancer chemotherapy. 
  • Predicting the risk of bacteremia in childen with fever and neutropenia. 
  • Predictors of severe and febrile neutropenia during primary chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. 
  • Prevention and early treatment of invasive fungal infection in patients with cancer and neutropenia and in stem cell transplant recipients in the era of newer broad-spectrum antifungal agents and diagnostic adjuncts. 
  • Prevention of cerebral hyperthermia during cardiac surgery by limiting on-bypass rewarming in combination with post-bypass body surface warming: a feasibility study. 
  • Prevention of late PJI. 
  • Previously unreported adverse reaction to encainide. 
  • Primary autoimmune myelofibrosis: definition of a distinct clinicopathologic syndrome. 
  • Prophylaxis of chemotherapy-induced febrile neutropenia with granulocyte colony-stimulating factors: where are we now? 
  • Prospective randomized double-blind comparison of moxalactam and tobramycin in treatment of urinary tract infections. 
  • Pyrogenic reactions in hemodialysis patients, Hanoi, Vietnam. 
  • Q Fever, Scrub Typhus, and Rickettsial Diseases in Children, Kenya, 2011-2012. 
  • Q fever, spotted fever group, and typhus group rickettsioses among hospitalized febrile patients in northern Tanzania. 
  • Randomized trial of pulsed corticosteroid therapy for primary treatment of Kawasaki disease. 
  • Recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor produces fever. 
  • Redefining outcome of first seizures by acute illness. 
  • Reduction by granulocyte colony-stimulating factor of fever and neutropenia induced by chemotherapy in patients with small-cell lung cancer. 
  • Relationship of serum complement levels to events of the malarial paroxysm. 
  • Respiratory syncytial virus and seasonal influenza cause similar illnesses in children with sickle cell disease. 
  • Risk and timing of hospitalization for febrile neutropenia in patients receiving CHOP, CHOP-R, or CNOP chemotherapy for intermediate-grade non-Hodgkin lymphoma. 
  • Risk factors for human acute leptospirosis in northern Tanzania. 
  • Risk of febrile neutropenia among patients with intermediate-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma receiving CHOP chemotherapy. 
  • Risk of fever and sepsis evaluations after routine immunizations in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Risk of mortality in patients with cancer who experience febrile neutropenia. 
  • Safety and Immunogenicity of DTaP5-IPV Compared With DTaP5 Plus IPV as the Fifth Dose in Children 4-6 Years of Age. 
  • Safety and immunogenicity of an AMA1 malaria vaccine in Malian children: results of a phase 1 randomized controlled trial. 
  • Safety of incremental inhaled lipopolysaccharide challenge in humans. 
  • Seasonal variation in the etiology of bloodstream infections in a febrile inpatient population in a developing country. 
  • Sequential prophylactic oral and empiric once-daily parenteral antibiotics for neutropenia and fever after high-dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow support. 
  • Short day lengths attenuate the symptoms of infection in Siberian hamsters. 
  • Side effects of oral misoprostol for the prevention of postpartum hemorrhage: results of a community-based randomised controlled trial in rural India. 
  • Somnolence syndrome after focal radiation therapy to the pineal region: case report and review of the literature. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia among patients with health care-associated fever. 
  • Supratherapeutic dosing of acetaminophen among hospitalized patients. 
  • Target Product Profile for a Diagnostic Assay to Differentiate between Bacterial and Non-Bacterial Infections and Reduce Antimicrobial Overuse in Resource-Limited Settings: An Expert Consensus. 
  • Temperature matters! And why it should matter to tumor immunologists. 
  • Temperature-activated ion channels in neural crest cells confer maternal fever-associated birth defects. 
  • The economics of febrile neutropenia: implications for the use of colony-stimulating factors. 
  • The effect of antipyretics on immune response and fever following receipt of inactivated influenza vaccine in young children. 
  • The effects of ibuprofen on the physiology and survival of patients with sepsis. The Ibuprofen in Sepsis Study Group. 
  • The etiology of febrile illness in adults presenting to Patan hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. 
  • The impact of familial Mediterranean fever on women's health. 
  • The impact of the granulocyte colony-stimulating factor on chemotherapy dose intensity and cancer survival: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. 
  • The relationship of complement consumption to immune fever. 
  • The skin in disseminated intravascular coagulation. Prospective analysis of thirty-six cases. 
  • The use of D-penicillamine in cystinuria: efficacy and untoward reactions. 
  • Therapeutic use of granulocyte colony-stimulating factors for established febrile neutropenia: effect on costs from a hospital perspective. 
  • Thermochemoradiotherapy improves oxygenation in locally advanced breast cancer. 
  • Topotecan, a topoisomerase I inhibitor, is active in the treatment of myelodysplastic syndrome and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. 
  • Unsuspected Dengue as a Cause of Acute Febrile Illness in Children and Adults in Western Nicaragua. 
  • Unsuspected dengue and acute febrile illness in rural and semi-urban southern Sri Lanka. 
  • Unsuspected leptospirosis is a cause of acute febrile illness in Nicaragua. 
  • Unsuspected rickettsioses among patients with acute febrile illness, Sri Lanka, 2007. 
  • Use of Rapid Influenza Testing to Reduce Antibiotic Prescriptions Among Outpatients with Influenza-Like Illness in Southern Sri Lanka. 
  • Using pay for performance incentives (P4P) to improve management of suspected malaria fevers in rural Kenya: a cluster randomized controlled trial. 
  • Utility of obtaining blood cultures in febrile neutropenic patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation. 
  • Voriconazole compared with liposomal amphotericin B for empirical antifungal therapy in patients with neutropenia and persistent fever. 
  • West Nile virus among hospitalized, febrile patients: a case for expanding diagnostic testing. 
  • Withholding antibiotics from patients with febrile neutropenia. 
  • Worrisome rash in an undergraduate. 
  • Zoledronic acid preserves bone mineral density in premenopausal women who develop ovarian failure due to adjuvant chemotherapy: final results from CALGB trial 79809. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Barker, Piers Christopher Andrew, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Cardiology
  • Cunningham, Coleen Kathryn, Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology
  • O'Meara, Wendy P, Associate Professor in Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases
  • Warner, David Samuel, Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology, in the School of Medicine, Neurobiology