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Published in: Infection 1/2013

01-02-2013 | Case Report

The tropics and the crime they did not commit

Authors: A. Goorhuis, P. P. A. M. van Thiel, S. Middeldorp, B. L. F. van Eck, M. P. Grobusch

Published in: Infection | Issue 1/2013

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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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Metadata
Title
The tropics and the crime they did not commit
Authors
A. Goorhuis
P. P. A. M. van Thiel
S. Middeldorp
B. L. F. van Eck
M. P. Grobusch
Publication date
01-02-2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Infection / Issue 1/2013
Print ISSN: 0300-8126
Electronic ISSN: 1439-0973
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-012-0375-x

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