The tropics and the crime they did not commit

A. Goorhuis; P. P. A. M. van Thiel; S. Middeldorp; B. L. F. van Eck; M. P. Grobusch

doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-012-0375-x

The tropics and the crime they did not commit

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

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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

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	275-277
Journal	Infection
Volume	41
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-012-0375-x
Publication status	Published - 2013

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