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Are children with prolonged fever at a higher risk for serious illness? A prospective observational study
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  • Ruud G Nijman Department of Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Division of Medicine, St. Mary’s hospital - Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, London, UK Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Section of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, London, UK Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health, Imperial College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Chantal D Tan Department of General Paediatrics, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nienke N Hagedoorn Department of General Paediatrics, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Daan Nieboer Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jethro Adam Herberg Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Section of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Anda Balode Department of Pediatrics, Children's Clinical University Hospital, Rīgas Stradiņa Universitāte, Riga, Latvia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ulrich von Both Division of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany Partner site Munich, German Centre for Infection Research, Munich, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Enitan D Carrol Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Irini Eleftheriou Second Department of Paediatrics, P & A Kyriakou Children’s Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Marieke Emonts Paediatric Immunology, Infectious Diseases & Allergy, Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust and Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Michiel van der Flier Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Amalia Children's Hospital, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands Section Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Nijmegen, Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ronald de Groot Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Amalia Children's Hospital, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands Section Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Nijmegen, Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Benno Kohlmaier Department of General Paediatrics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Emma Lim Paediatric Immunology, Infectious Diseases & Allergy, Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Federico Martinón-Torres Genetics, Vaccines, Infections and Paediatrics Research group (GENVIP), Hospital Clinico Universitario de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Marko Pokorn Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Franc Strle Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Maria Tsolia Second Department of Paediatrics, P & A Kyriakou Children’s Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Shunmay Yeung Clinical Research Department, Faculty of Tropical and Infectious Disease, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Joany M Zachariasse Department of General Paediatrics, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Dace Zavadska Department of Pediatrics, Children's Clinical University Hospital, Rīgas Stradiņa Universitāte, Riga, Latvia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Werner Zenz Department of General Paediatrics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Michael Levin Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Section of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Clementien L Vermont Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Henriette A Moll Department of General Paediatrics, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ian K Maconochie Department of Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Division of Medicine, St. Mary’s hospital - Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • On behalf of PERFORM consortium
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  1. Correspondence to Dr Ruud G Nijman, Department of Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London W2 1NY, UK; r.nijman{at}imperial.ac.uk
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Citation

Nijman RG, Tan CD, Hagedoorn NN On behalf of PERFORM consortium, et al
Are children with prolonged fever at a higher risk for serious illness? A prospective observational study
Archives of Disease in Childhood 2023;108:632-639.

Publication history

  • Received January 15, 2023
  • Accepted April 10, 2023
  • First published April 25, 2023.
Online issue publication 
October 18, 2023

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