Fever in the tropics: Aetiology and case-fatality - a prospective observational study in a tertiary care hospital in South India

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Abrahamsen, Siri K ^a,b   Haugen, Cathrine N ^a,b   Rupali, Priscilla ^c   Mathai, Dilip ^c   Langeland, Nina ^a,b   Eide, Geir E ^a,b   Mørch, Kristine ^a  

^a HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Aetiology; Case fatality; Fever; Malaria; Sepsis; Tropics; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE UNDIFFERENTIATED FEVER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHOLECYSTITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; ENDOCARDITIS; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; GENDER; HEPATITIS B; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIVER AMEBIASIS; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERITONITIS; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RUBELLA; SCRUB TYPHUS; SPLEEN ABSCESS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 84880948824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-355     Document Type: Article

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