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What is Your Guess? A 42-Year-Old Woman with Fever after a Trip to Africa

Author(s) -

Hélène Delacour,

C. Rapp,

Audrey Mérens

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

clinical chemistry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.705

H-Index - 218

eISSN - 1530-8561

pISSN - 0009-9147

DOI - 10.1373/clinchem.2011.168989

Subject(s) - yellow fever , fever of unknown origin , medicine , virology , pediatrics , surgery , virus

Case DescriptionA 42-year-old woman was admitted with fever. Two weeks prior, she had returned from a 1-month stay in the Comoros archipelago (islands situated to the east of Mozambique), during which she had not taken antimalarial prophylaxis. Her medical history included a total splenectomy during surgery for a gastrointestinal stromal tumor 2 years before. A thin smear of blood revealed the findings seen in Fig. 1 (highlighted by arrows), and test results …

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