Convulsions with Fever of Acute Onset in School-age Children in Benin City, Nigeria
| العنوان: | Convulsions with Fever of Acute Onset in School-age Children in Benin City, Nigeria |
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| المؤلفون: | George O. Akpede, R. M. Sykes |
| المصدر: | Journal of Tropical Pediatrics. 39:309-311 |
| بيانات النشر: | Oxford University Press (OUP), 1993. |
| سنة النشر: | 1993 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Male, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Holoendemic, Plasmodium falciparum, location.country, Population, Child Welfare, Nigeria, Seizures, Febrile, Meningitis, Bacterial, location, parasitic diseases, medicine, Animals, Humans, Fever of unknown origin, Child, education, Bénin Republic, education.field_of_study, business.industry, Age Factors, medicine.disease, Malaria, Infectious Diseases, El Niño, Bacteremia, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Female, business, Meningitis |
| الوصف: | Convulsions with fever (CWF) are rare after 5 years of age. The authors describe the conditions of 92 children aged 6-14 years with acute CWF recruited from the Childrens Emergency Room of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital over a 1-year period in Benin City Nigeria. This area of southern Nigeria is holoendemic for malaria. 49% had malaria parasitaemia 15% bacterial meningitis 8% focal extracranial infections 1% bacteraemia and 27% acute fever of undetermined origin. The prevalence of meningitis increased with the presence of temperature greater than or equal to 40 degrees Centigrade focal seizures and rousable coma. The authors conclude that while bacterial meningitis is an important illness in school-age children with CWF malaria parasitaemia is the most common infection. |
| تدمد: | 1465-3664 0142-6338 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::6005fa601a01b29ef86e41bc13238553 https://doi.org/10.1093/tropej/39.5.309 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....6005fa601a01b29ef86e41bc13238553 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14653664 01426338 |
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