Acute undifferentiated febrile illness in adult hospitalized patients: The disease spectrum and diagnostic predictors – an experience from a tertiary care hospital in South India

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 230-234

  Chrispal, Anugrah ^a   Boorugu, Harikishan ^a   Gopinath, Kango Gopal ^a   Chandy, Sara ^a   Prakash, John Antony Jude ^a   Thomas, Elsa Mary ^a   Abraham, Asha Mary ^a   Abraham, O C ^b   Thomas, Kurien ^a  

^a Department of Medicine Unit 2 ^*  (United States)

^b CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE; DISEASE DURATION; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HANTAVIRUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; INDIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MENINGITIS; RASH; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SEROLOGY; SPLENOMEGALY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; ACUTE DISEASE; COMPLICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITIC DISEASES; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VIRUS DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; DENGUE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITIC DISEASES; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VIRUS DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

HANTAVIRUS;

EID: 77957354855     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/td.2010.100132     Document Type: Article

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