"Fever of Unknown Origin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Fever in which the etiology cannot be ascertained.
| Descriptor ID |
D005335
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.888.119.344.345
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| Concept/Terms |
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Fever of Unknown Origin".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Fever of Unknown Origin" by people in this website by year, and whether "Fever of Unknown Origin" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fever of Unknown Origin" by people in Profiles.
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Facial Nerve Palsy in a Child With Fever of Unknown Origin. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2020 05; 59(4-5):516-518.
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Persistent fever in a pediatric renal transplant patient: Answers. Pediatr Nephrol. 2019 05; 34(5):825-828.
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Persistent fever in a pediatric renal transplant patient: Questions. Pediatr Nephrol. 2019 05; 34(5):823-824.
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Cefepime-Induced Neurotoxicity Despite Dose Adjustment for Renal Disease: A Brief Report and Review of the Literature. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2017 Jun 01; 6(2):199-201.
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Angiostrongylus cantonensis Infection: A Cause of Fever of Unknown Origin in Pediatric Patients. Clin Infect Dis. 2016 Dec 01; 63(11):1475-1478.
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Chronic granulomatous disease presenting as hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis: a case report. Pediatrics. 2014 Dec; 134(6):e1727-30.
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Pro-adrenomedullin as a novel biomarker for predicting infections and response to antimicrobials in febrile patients with hematologic malignancies. Clin Infect Dis. 2013 Apr; 56(7):943-50.
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An adolescent female with fever, rash, and arthralgias. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2013 May; 52(5):475-8.
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Clinical and laboratory features of neonatal herpes simplex virus infection: a case-control study. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2008 May; 27(5):425-30.
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Persistent fever in a four-year-old child. Semin Pediatr Infect Dis. 2005 Jul; 16(3):158-9; discussion 227-8.