Trial reportEpidemiology and infection2017
The presence of fever in adults with influenza and other viral respiratory infections.
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- Does knowing the influenza epidemic threshold has been reached influence the performance of influenza case definitions?PloS one · 2022Article
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- Changes in the pathogenic spectrum of acute respiratory tract infections during the COVID-19 epidemic in Beijing, China: A large-scale active surveillance study.The Journal of infection · 2021Article
- Nosocomial Respiratory Infections in a Rural Zambian Hospital.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2021Article
- Modeling the effectiveness of olfactory testing to limit SARS-CoV-2 transmission.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Review of the efficacy of infrared thermography for screening infectious diseases with applications to COVID-19.Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) · 2021Review
- Reply to Bernstein, Atmar, and Hoft.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2020Article
- Influenza With and Without Fever: Clinical Predictors and Impact on Outcomes in Patients Requiring Hospitalization.Open forum infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Risk factors and patterns of household clusters of respiratory viruses in rural Nepal.Epidemiology and infection · 2019Article
- A rapid evidence appraisal of influenza vaccination in health workers: An important policy in an area of imperfect evidence.Vaccine: X · 2019Review
- Nosocomial outbreak of influenza A H3N2 in an inpatient oncology unit related to health care workers presenting to work while ill.American journal of infection control · 2019Article
- PrEP-001 prophylactic effect against rhinovirus and influenza virus - RESULTS of 2 randomized trials.Antiviral research · 2018Article
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Abstract
We compared the rates of fever in adult subjects with laboratory-confirmed influenza and other respiratory viruses and examined the factors that predict fever in adults. Symptom data on 158 healthcare workers (HCWs) with a laboratory-confirmed respiratory virus infection were collected using standardized data collection forms from three separate studies. Overall, the rate of fever in confirmed viral respiratory infections in adult HCWs was 23·4% (37/158). Rates varied by virus: human rhinovirus (25·3%, 19/75), influenza A virus (30%, 3/10), coronavirus (28·6%, 2/7), human metapneumovirus (28·6%, 2/7), respiratory syncytial virus (14·3%, 4/28) and parainfluenza virus (8·3%, 1/12). Smoking [relative risk (RR) 4·65, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1·33-16·25] and co-infection with two or more viruses (RR 4·19, 95% CI 1·21-14·52) were significant predictors of fever. Fever is less common in adults with confirmed viral respiratory infections, including influenza, than described in children. More than 75% of adults with a viral respiratory infection do not have fever, which is an important finding for clinical triage of adult patients with respiratory infections. The accepted definition of 'influenza-like illness' includes fever and may be insensitive for surveillance when high case-finding is required. A more sensitive case definition could be used to identify adult cases, particularly in event of an emerging viral infection.
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