Fortnightly Review: Evaluating fever in travellers returning from tropical countries

BMJ

Volumn 312, Issue 7036, 1996, Pages 953-

  Humar, Atul ^a   Keystone, Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SMEAR; DENGUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FECES CULTURE; FEVER; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALARIA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SHORT SURVEY; TRAVEL; TROPICS; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; VACCINATION;

ARBOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEVER; HUMANS; MALARIA; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; TRAVEL; TYPHOID FEVER; VACCINATION;

EID: 0029971527     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.312.7036.953     Document Type: Article

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