Recurrent Fevers of Unknown Origin

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1189-1211

  Knockaert, Daniel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIMETIDINE; QUININE;

ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; BEHCET DISEASE; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CLINICAL FEATURE; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG FEVER; DYSPEPSIA; ENDOCARDITIS; HUMAN; INFECTION; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LEG CRAMP; MASTOCYTOSIS; NONHUMAN; OSTEOMYELITIS; POLYCHONDRITIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RAT BITE FEVER; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; REVIEW; SPIRILLUM; SPONDYLITIS; STREPTOBACILLUS MONILIFORMIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TUMOR; VEIN THROMBOSIS; YERSINIA;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RECURRENCE; RHEUMATIC DISEASES;

EID: 36448940452     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.idc.2007.08.004     Document Type: Review

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