Evaluation of fever in the returned traveler

Primary Care - Clinics in Office Practice

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 947-969

  McLellan, Susan L F ^a,b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; ATOVAQUONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLOROQUINE; CLINDAMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DOXYCYCLINE; FANSIDAR; HALOFANTRINE; MEFLOQUINE; MELARSOPROL; PENICILLIN G; PRAZIQUANTEL; PROGUANIL; QUINIDINE GLUCONATE; QUININE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; QUINOLONE; RIBAVIRIN; SULFADOXINE; SULFANILAMIDE DERIVATIVE; SURAMIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANAMNESIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSULTATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EMPIRICISM; EVALUATION; FEVER; HUMAN; INFECTION; LABORATORY; MALARIA; PATHOGENESIS; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRAVEL; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; DENGUE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEVER; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALARIA; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TRAVEL; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 0036947637     PISSN: 00954543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0095-4543(02)00045-3     Document Type: Review

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