Etiological study of fever of unknown origin in patients admitted to medicine ward of a teaching hospital of Eastern India

Journal of Global Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 329-333

  Bandyopadhyay, Dipanjan ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Ramtanu ^a   Paul, Rudrajit ^a   Roy, Deeptarka ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

FUO; Infectious disease; Malignancy

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; KIKUCHI DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS;

EID: 84855164680     PISSN: 0974777X     EISSN: 09748245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0974-777X.91052     Document Type: Article

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