A man with chills and fever after a stay in South America

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 349, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 287-295

  Daily, Johanna P ^a   Waldron, Mary Ann ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DOXYCYCLINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS VACCINE; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

ADULT; AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ERYTHEMA; FEVER; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; MALARIA; MALE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RICKETTSIOSIS; SOUTH AMERICA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; YELLOW FEVER; ANIMAL; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; TRAVEL; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

ADULT; AMEBIASIS; ANIMALS; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; CHILLS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEVER; HUMANS; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; SOUTH AMERICA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRAVEL; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 0038340255     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc020030     Document Type: Article

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