Erratum (DOI:10.1016/j.idc.2007.09.002);Fever of Unknown Origin: Clinical Overview of Classic and Current Concepts

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 867-915

  Cunha, Burke A ^a,b  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA LACTAM; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DILTIAZEM; DOXYCYCLINE; MONOBACTAM; NAPROXEN; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; VERAPAMIL;

AGING; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; COLON CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DRUG FEVER; ENDOCARDITIS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FACTITIOUS DISEASE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEVER; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEART MURMUR; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; LYMPHOMA; MALARIA; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; NEUTROPENIA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PELVIS ABSCESS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOLYMPHOMA; PUBLICATION; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; Q FEVER; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SUBACUTE THYROIDITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICHINOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 36448939018     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.idc.2008.03.012     Document Type: Erratum

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