Fever in travelers returning from malaria-endemic areas: Don't look for malaria only

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 239-244

  Siikamäki, Heli M ^a   Kivelä, Pia S ^a   Sipilä, Pyry N ^a   Kettunen, Annikaisa ^a   Kainulainen, M Katariina ^a   Ollgren, Jukka P ^b   Kantele, Anu ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; AGE; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLONORCHIASIS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLLAGEN DISEASE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DENGUE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS INFECTION; ERYSIPELAS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FEVER; GIARDIASIS; GONORRHEA; HEPATITIS E; HERPES SIMPLEX; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA; INTENSIVE CARE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MELIOIDOSIS; NOSE SMEAR; PARATYPHOID FEVER; PLASMODIUM OVALE MALARIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; PYELONEPHRITIS; RICKETTSIOSIS; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SALMONELLOSIS; SARCOIDOSIS; SEPTICEMIA; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SHIGELLOSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SUBACUTE THYROIDITIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRAVEL; TYPHOID FEVER; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS MENINGITIS; YERSINIOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FEVER; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959923768     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2011.00532.x     Document Type: Article

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