Fever origins in the tropics.
The causes of fever were attempted to identify in a prospective study on 300 adult in- and outpatients with fever at Kinshasa Teaching Hospital, Zaire. Infection was by far the primary cause of fever (87%). Tuberculosis occurred in 15% of the inpatients. Malaria was the most frequent febrile disease: one fever in two was malaria. Connective tissue diseases and neoplasms were rare.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015023:Democratic Republic of the Congo; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D014329:Tropical Climate