1. Epidemiology of congenital malaria in Nigeria: a multi-centre study
(Journal Club/Pediatrics)

...ten asymptomatic, clears spontaneously and may not warrant treatment. However, newborns with unexplained fever and refusal to feed in malaria endemic areas should be tested for malaria. Epidemiology...

2. Baby Hannah
(Stories/Patients)

... days we had her. Was she alright? Was it just the sedative effect of the drug? Then she got sick with a fever and irritability. We had to give her intravenous antibiotics for a week. Whether be...

3. Putting Typhoid Vaccination on the Global Health Agenda (NEJM)
(Journal Club/Infectious Diseases)

Enteric fever or typhoid cases have increased significantly at our hospital in the past 2 years, both in children and adults, with many cases  of intestinal perforation and not a few deaths. This

4. Acute HIV infection in first six months of life: case report
(Journal Club/HIV)

... the primary infection in the mother. Symptoms: "Our patient's prolonged viral syndrome, including fever, pancytopenia, hepatitis, encephalitis, and hemolysis may all be explained by an acute re...

5. Improved Diagnostic Testing and Malaria Treatment Practices in Zambia
(Journal Club/Malaria)

...arial treatments must be accompanied by a major change in clinical treatment of patients presenting with fever but lacking evidence of malaria infection." Improved Diagnostic Testing and Mal...

6. Avian Influenza ("Bird Flu") H5N1
(FAQs/Health and Illness)

...l of clinical suspicion should be heightened for persons showing influenza-like illness, especially with fever and symptoms in the lower respiratory tract, who have a history of close contact with bir...

7. What immunizations does my baby or child need for travel to Nigeria?
(FAQs/Info for travelers)

... for malaria prevention). Meningococcal immunization for children 3 months or older Yellow fever immunization for children 9 months or older Typhoid immunization for children 2 ye...

8. NEJM Case 32-2006 — A 3-year-old girl with fever after a visit to Africa
(Journal Club/Travel Medicine)

Case 32-2006 — A 3-Year-Old Girl with Fever after a Visit to Africa. NEJM 355:1715-1722

9. Online visual help for diagnosis of skin lesions
(Journal Club/Family practice)

...consists of several modules, many of which are very relevant to infectious diseases specialists, such as Fever & Rash; International Travel; Drug Eruptions; Smallpox Vaccination; Terrorism Recogni...

10. Wait-and-see prescription promising for acute otitis media
(Journal Club/Pediatrics)

A four-year-old child arrives in your clinic with fever and irritability for the past 24 hours. Your examination reveals an inflammed, bulging right tympanic membrane. Should you prescribe antibiotics

11. Summary of Evangel's history by Dr. Bev Truxton
(Evangel Information/History)

...of the ECWA Community Health Program offices. In 1969, the hospital became the center where Lassa fever, the hemorrhagic fever virus in West Africa, was initially identified. After two missiona...

12. Infectious Mononucleosis–Like Syndromes in Febrile Travelers
(Journal Club/Travel Medicine)

Infectious-mononucleosis-like syndromes are characterized by fever, pharyngitis, lymphadenopathy, and atypical or reactive lymphomonocytosis. This article looks at 72 travelers and migrants encountere

13. Possibilities for relapsing fever reemergence
(Journal Club/Infectious Diseases)

Relapsing fever Borrelia infections have attracted little attention in recent years; however, where endemic, these infections still result in considerable illness and death. Despite the marked antimic

14. Doxycycline effective for post-exposure prophylaxis to tick-borne relapsing fever
(Journal Club/Infectious Diseases)

...o tick bites showed doxycycline to be 100% effective (95% CI 46-100%) in preventing tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF). The doxycycline was given as 200 mg on the first day, then 100 mg daily for 4 day...

15. Rapid diagnosis of typhoid fever
(Journal Club/Family practice)

Rapid diagnosis of typhoid fever, Indian J Med Res 123, April 2006, pp 489-492. Free access.

16. Current concepts in the diagnosis and treatment of typhoid fever (BMJ Review)
(Journal Club/Family practice)

...oints (quoted from article): Despite advances in technology and public health strategies, typhoid fever remains a major cause of morbidity in the developing world In some areas typhoid fev...

17. Tick-born relapsing fever quite common in parts of West Africa
(Journal Club/Infectious Diseases)

...nithodoros sonrai; this tick acts as a vector for Borrelia crocidurae, which causes tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF). ... This study found a very high incidence of TBRF in Senegal, Mauritania, and ...

18. Could antipyretics have negative effects when used for malaria?
(Journal Club/Malaria)

...e for caution. It is noted that some previous studies have failed to show that antipyretics decrease the fever of malaria more than simple mechanical measures such as fanning. "The experimental r...

19. Malarial illness more common with low CD4 counts, but beware of overdiagnosis
(Journal Club/HIV)

...mmunosuppression than are other opportunistic infections. Where malaria is common, the high incidence of fever found among immunosuppressed adults may lead to misclassification of illness episodes as ...

20. Information for medical and pre-med students coming to Evangel
(FAQs/Medical and pre-medical student rotations)

...our patients have HIV or other blood-borne infectious diseases. There are even occasional cases of Lassa fever and similar diseases. You must be very careful at all times, especially during procedures...