Fever in a 7‐Year‐Old Girl Returning from Mali: (Answer on pages 1490–1)
| Autor: | Agathe Lebuisson, Jean Dupouy-Camet, Philippe Poirier, Florence Moulin, C. Menager |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Microbiology (medical)
medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics Abdominal pain medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Physical examination Emergency department medicine.disease Surgery Soft feces Infectious Diseases El Niño parasitic diseases medicine Travel medicine Girl medicine.symptom business Malaria media_common |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Infectious Diseases. 47:1442-1442 |
| ISSN: | 1537-6591 1058-4838 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/593096 |
| Popis: | A 7-year-old girl presented to our emergency department with fever. Two months earlier, she had returned to her home in France from Mopti, a Malian town on the banks of the rivers Niger and Bani. During her stay in Mali, she had taken atovaquone-proguanil to prevent malaria. After her return to France, she had experienced abdominal pain for 4 days and reported an episode of soft feces. She had had 3 bouts of fever during the 3 weeks before presentation. Each bout of fever had lasted 24 h and had responded to paracetamol. On her admission to the emergency department, the patient was apyretic (temperature, 98.5°F), and the findings of a physical examination were unremarkable. Her heart rate was 79 |
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