Laboratory features of common causes of fever in returned travelers

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 235-239

  Cooper, Eden C ^a   Ratnam, Irani ^a   Mohebbi, Mohammadreza ^b   Leder, Karin ^a,c  

^a VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DENGUE; EMPORIATRICS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TYPHOID FEVER; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TRAVEL; TROPIC CLIMATE; TROPICAL MEDICINE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; DENGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TRAVEL; TROPICAL CLIMATE; TROPICAL MEDICINE; TYPHOID FEVER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903757425     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jtm.12122     Document Type: Article

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