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ArticleJournal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR2015

Aetiologies of Acute Undifferentiated Febrile illness in Adult Patients - an Experience from a Tertiary Care Hospital in Northern India.

Garima Mittal, Sohaib Ahmad, R K Agarwal, Minakshi Dhar, Manish Mittal, Shiwani Sharma

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Article in Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Garima MittalAssistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, SRH University , Jolly Grant, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India .
Sohaib AhmadAssociate Professor, Department of Medicine, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, SRH University , Jolly Grant, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India .
R K AgarwalProfessor and Head, Department of Microbiology, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, SRH University , Jolly Grant, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India .
Minakshi DharAssociate Professor, Department of Medicine, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, SRH University , Jolly Grant, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India .
Manish MittalAssociate Professor, Department of Neurology, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, SRH University , Jolly Grant, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India .
Shiwani SharmaPostgraduate, Department of Microbiology, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, SRH University , Jolly Grant, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India .
Swami Rama Himalayan University · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionAcute undifferentiated febrile illness (AUFI) is a common clinical entity in most of the hospitals. The fever can be potentially fatal if the aetiology is not recognized and appropriately treated early.

aimTo describe the aetiology of fever among patients in a tertiary care hospital in Northern India. MATERIALS AND

methodsA one-year retro-prospective, observational study was conducted in adults (age>18years) presenting with undifferentiated febrile illness (of duration 5-14 days). Diagnosis was confirmed by suitable laboratory tests after exhaustive clinical examination.

resultsA total of 2547 patients with AUFI were evaluated. Of these, 1663 (65.3%) were males and 884 (34.7%) were females. Dengue (37.54%); enteric fever (16.5%); scrub typhus (14.42%); bacterial sepsis (10.3%); malaria (6.8%); hepatitis A (1.9%); hepatitis E (1.4%); leptospirosis (0.14%); were the main infections while no specific diagnosis could be delineated in 11%. Mixed infections were noted in 48 (1.9%) patients.

conclusionA good clinical acumen supported by the basic investigations can help diagnose the cause of fever with reasonable certainty.

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DengueMalariaScrub typhusTyphoid

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PMID26816892
PMCPMC4717819
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