When fever is not malaria

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bisoffi, Zeno ^a   Buonfrate, Dora ^a  

^a SACRO CUORE DON CALABRIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DOXYCYCLINE;

BACTEREMIA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LETTER; MALARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRUB TYPHUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; MALE;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84887512459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(13)70013-5     Document Type: Letter

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