febrile disease

[′feb·rəl di‚zēz]

(medicine)

Any disease associated with or characterized by fever.

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This study provides evidence of a transition of febrile disease etiology from Plasmodium spp.

Transition in the cause of fever from malaria to dengue, northwestern Ecuador, 1990-2011

He said that dengue or break-bone fever is an acute febrile disease that is characterized by a sudden onset with fever, severe bodily pain in joints, slow pulse, decrease in red blood corpus cells and measles-like skin eruption.

Homeo medicine Eupatorium preventive to dengue fever: Dr. Ghazi

Individuals who have acquired partial immunity through previous bouts of malaria develop a 'parasitic threshold' below which parasitaemia will not cause febrile disease, but the non-immune, malaria-naive traveller will develop febrile disease at very low parasite counts (~10/[micro]l).

Parasitic diseases in the returning traveller: parasitic infections often present with nonspecific symptoms

Terrorists have successfully used the acute, highly contagious, febrile disease as a biochemical agent with plans to spread it into several sport arenas, airports, and shopping malls to maximize its deadly effects.

The True-to-Life Terrorist Attack Could Strike Any American City Tomorrow; Are We Prepared for a Smallpox Threat?

Schattner A, Klepfish A, Caspi A: Chronic aortic dissection presenting as a prolonged febrile disease and arterial embolization.

Chronic aortic dissection as a cause of fever of unknown origin

This volume contains, first, a social and cultural history of febrile disease in the early modern period.

Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England

While some ehrlichia infections are not apparent, they may cause an acute febrile disease of varying severity, with an estimated fatality incidence of 2% to 3%.

Panbio Purchases Intellectual Property from Corixa for Detecting Tick Borne Diseases

Only a few reports describe isolation of this virus from humans in Central and South America with symptoms ranging from subclinical to severe febrile disease (2-6).

Ilheus virus infection in human, Bolivia

Malaria RDTs have the potential to greatly enhance management of febrile disease and allow prompt access to antimalarial drugs.

Rapid, accurate diagnostic testing is essential in malaria-endemic areas

The 2 horses with febrile disease and 2 with mild nervous disease recovered fully.

Shuni virus as cause of neurologic disease in horses

According to a Japanese Infectious Agents Surveillance Report, this virus is one of the major causes of herpangina, an acute febrile disease characterized by vesicles, ulcers, and redness around the uvula, which occurs mainly in young children and infants.

Hand, foot, and mouth disease caused by Coxsackievirus A6, Japan, 2011

West Nile virus (WNV), a mosquito-borne flavivirus, may cause outbreaks of febrile disease and encephalitis in humans and horses.

Fatal neurologic disease and abortion in mare infected with lineage 1 West Nile Virus, South Africa