The causes of fever of unknown origin (FUO) are changing because advances in clinical practice and diagnostics have facilitated the identification of some infections. A variety of bacterial infections can cause FUO, and these can be divided into those that are easy to identify using culture and those that require serological or molecular tests for identification. A number of viral, parasitic an...

One of the most important infectious diseases in the world is Malaria. About half of the world populations are exposed to the risk of the disease. The program for controlling and eradication of Malaria has been being conducted in our country since many years ago. One of the public health problems in the endemic and non-endemic countries is Imported Malaria which can ...

C A S E A 12-month-old previously healthy girl was admitted after having 8 days of intermittent fever and rash; she also developed bilateral hand swelling the day of admission. Her rash consisted of erythematous macules over her arms, torso, back, and face. She had no evidence of conjunctival injection, lymphadenopathy, or mucositis. On admission, she was febrile at 39.1°C, her white blood cell...

a 30-year-old african woman in kenya succumbed to severe swollen regional lymph nodes, development of painful boils and ulcer formation and rashes at specific tick-biting sites together with an intermittent fever and headache following repeated tick bites of rhipicephalus pulchellus. she later developed nuchal lymphadenopathy-like condition and an eschar with edematous margins at bitten sites. ...

histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis or kikuchi's disease is a rare, benign condition of unknown etiology, which is usually characterized by cervical lymphadenopathy and fever. this disease is rarely associated with systemic lupus erythematosus. here we describe, for the first time in iran, a patient who developed systemic lupus erythematosus about 3 years after the initial diagnosis of kikuch...

In this study, a novel discrimination method for known and unknown target using High-Resolution Range Profile (HRRP), namely log-likelihood ratio score method, is proposed. The aim of this method is to minimize the error probability of discrimination by constructing the unknown target model when the data of unknown target is lack. The Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) is introduced to model the stat...