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Dorlands Medical Dictionary (3859 words) |
 | fever associated with aseptic wounds, presumably due to the disintegration of leukocytes or to the absorption of avascular or traumatized but uninfected tissue. |
| Symptoms include fever of insidious onset, headache, dry cough, back pain, vomiting, diarrhea, pharyngitis, facial edema, and occasionally a maculopapular rash; in severe cases there is a sudden drop in blood pressure on the seventh day, with death resulting from shock, hypotension, peripheral vasoconstriction, hypovolemia, and anuria. |
| a hemorrhagic fever similar in its clinical manifestations to Kyasanur Forest disease, endemic in a forested region of western Siberia, and caused by a flavivirus, transmitted to humans by the bites of infected ticks of the genus Dermacentor or by direct contact with infected muskrats, as by fur trappers. |
| Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Brazilian purpuric fever - Mato Grosso, Brazil (984 words) |
| Brazilian purpuric fever (BPF) is a life-threatening pediatric infection that is preceded by conjunctivitis and caused by a specific strain of Haemophilus influenzae biogroup aeygptius (BPF clone) (*) [1-4]. |
| BPF was recognized during 1984 in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, when 10 children in a town of 20,000 persons died of an acute febrile illness associated with purpura and vascular collapse [5,6]. |
| During the epidemiologic investigation of BPF in Mato Grosso, a randomized study was conducted to compare the efficacy of topical chloramphenicol with that of oral rifampin for conjunctival eradication of the BPF clone among children with BPF clone conjunctivitis. |
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