Case 29-2003: A 60-year-old man with fever, rigors, and sweats

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 349, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1168-1175

  Gutman, Joshua D ^a,b   Kotton, Camille N ^c   Kratz, Alexander ^c  

^a Family Medicine Associates   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD SMEAR; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEVER; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LYME DISEASE; MALE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIGOR; SORE THROAT; SWEATING; TICK BORNE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE INCLUSION BODY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNGITIS; URINE;

ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPNEA; ERYTHROCYTE INCLUSIONS; ERYTHROCYTES; FEVER; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNGITIS; SWEATING; URINE;

EID: 0141791059     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc030025     Document Type: Review

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