THE MEAN TEMPERATURE IN NON-FEBRILE HOSPITAL PATIENTS

Leptospirosis in febrile hospital patients in Djakarta.

The prevalence of campylobacter jejuni induced gastroenteritis in patients with diarrhea referring to Mean Reza hospital in Mashhad,Iran

  The ever- increasing importance of campylobacter jejuni infectious is due to its associations with severe diarrhoea , especially in children. In order to determine the bacterial etiology of gastroenteritis, we cultured the stool of 903 patients over 10 months from April 1993 to February 1994. In this study, campylobacter jejuni, salmonella and Shigella were isolated from 19,29 and 16 patient...

Dengue Fever Serology in Febrile Patients in Southeast Iran

Background: Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease that has rapidly spread in all regions in recent years. There is little information on dengue fever epidemiology in Iran. High prevalence of dengue fever in Pakistan bordering southeast Iran emphasizes the need for paying more attention to monitoring of the disease in this region. The aim of this study was to study the dengue...

Evaluation of Selenium Levels and Mean Platelet Volume in Patients with Simple Febrile Convulsion

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate serum selenium levels and mean platelet volume in children who experience simple febrile convulsion. METHODS The study comprised 42 patients diagnosed with simple febrile convulsions and a control group of 30 healthy children. Blood samples were taken following a febrile convulsion. Selenium levels in the serum of both the patients and control subjects w...

High prevalence of Non–typhoid salmonella bacteraemia among febrile HIV adult patients admitted at a tertiary Hospital, North-Western Tanzania

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Bacterial blood stream infections constitute a significant public-health problem and it is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in HIV infected patients. Little is known in developing countries regarding salmonella bacteraemia among HIV patients. The purpose of this study was to determine the bacterial pathogens causing blood stream infection among febrile adul...