Approach to the patient with fever

Principles of Ambulatory Medicine: Seventh Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 457-465

  Auwaerter, Paul G ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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