| Title |
The tropics and the crime they did not commit
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Infection, December 2012
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| DOI | 10.1007/s15010-012-0375-x |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
A. Goorhuis, P. P. A. M. van Thiel, S. Middeldorp, B. L. F. van Eck, M. P. Grobusch |
| Abstract |
Travellers to tropical destinations who seek medical attention after returning to their home country often present with fever, frequently as a result of an imported infectious disease. For this reason, clinicians initially focus on an infectious cause when a clear relationship in time exists between travel and disease onset. We present a case of a patient, who developed fever 2 weeks after his return from Ghana and who was finally diagnosed with an auto-immune disease: arteritis of the large arteries. This case illustrates that broad differential diagnostic thinking is paramount in the assessment of returned travellers. |
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| Unknown | 16 | 89% |
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| Student > Postgraduate | 2 | 11% |
| Researcher | 2 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 2 | 11% |
| Other | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 3 | 17% |
| Unknown | 4 | 22% |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 10 | 56% |
| Neuroscience | 1 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 1 | 6% |
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