Fever of Unknown Origin: Is There a Role for Empiric Therapy?

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1213-1220

  Bryan, Charles S ^a   Ahuja, Divya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CORTICOSTEROID; GENTAMICIN; NAPROXEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PENICILLIN G; STREPTOMYCIN;

ABSCESS; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACUTE EPIGLOTTITIS; ANAMNESIS; ASPLENIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BRAIN ABSCESS; CAVERNOUS SINUS THROMBOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMPIRICISM; ENDOCARDITIS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IMAGING; LABORATORY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER BIOPSY; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; REVIEW; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SEROLOGY; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SPHENOID SINUS; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMANS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 36448940089     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.idc.2007.08.007     Document Type: Review

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