Imported fever: A survival guide

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 124-128

  Jacobs, Michael ^a  

^a NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUININE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANEMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; DENGUE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; HEMOGLOBINURIA; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; LUNG EDEMA; MALARIA; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TROPICAL DISEASE; TYPHOID FEVER; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

EID: 0034033579     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014107680009300305     Document Type: Review

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