Background As the incidence of malaria diminishes, a better understanding of nonmalarial
fever is important for effective management of illness in children. In this study, we explored …

… Among the ancients, typhoid fever and malaria were common causes of prolonged fevers.
Few … With image directed percutaneous biopsies, exploratory laparotomy is now rarely needed …

… From a clinical and epidemiologic perspective, it is useful to group the patients … the source
of fever in travelers as they are in nontravelers. Malaria is the most common cause of fever in …

… falciparum malaria in Laos, identification of the causes of fever in people without malaria,
and … We aimed to identify the causes of non-malarial acute fever in patients in rural Laos. …

… As malaria prevalence decreases, there is a need to strengthen diagnostic capacity and …
look for other causes of fever of unknown origin. In the present study malaria ranked the second …

… While many fevers are not malaria it would be desirable to … from clinical malaria by use of
a local disease concept. At the … may exclude some fevers (including biomedical malaria) from …

… The high proportion of patients with more than one diagnosis proves the importance of …
with fever had a potentially life‐threatening illness. Septicemia was as common as malaria. The …

… Full size image … A second constraint is that malaria is a common cause of fever in almost
all age … and a positive blood smear for malaria parasites does not exclude serious bacterial …

… In view of the difficulty of knowing whether a parasitemia is indicative of the malarial
etiology of an illness (Figure 2), and in view of the non-specificity of clinical syndromes, other …

In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for … 't we doing more to eradicate
one of our oldest foes? And how … people every year, killing nearly 1 million of them? In The …