title: [Unusual infectious diseases in a municipal hospital (author's transl)].
abstract: The most important criteria for differential diagnosis are presented with reference to case histories: Falciparum malaria: relapsing fever, hemolytic anemia, hepatosplenomegaly, leucopenia; Kala-azar: insidious course with fever, pancytopenia, macrocytic anemia, hepatosplenomegaly, enlargement of lymph nodes; echinococcosis: symptoms of a benign tumor with displacement.
  
  
  METHODS
  by identification of the pathogen in malaria and kala-azar, serologically in all three diseases and also radiologically in echinococcosis.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000469:parasitology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004444:Echinococcosis, Hepatic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007898:Leishmaniasis, Visceral / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D008288:Malaria / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum; D013249:Sternum
vernacular_title: Ungewöhnliche Infektions-krankheiten in einem Stadtkrankenhaus