title: A fever from the tropics.
abstract: Shirley is a 42 year old woman who has rung you 5 days after returning from a 3 week resort holiday in Malaysia and Thailand. You saw her before her trip and administered a hepatitis A vaccine and advised her that she did not require anti malarial drugs as she was only going to large cities and beach resorts. She says she has had a high fever, headache and body aches for several days and that she feels exhausted, but is well enough to come to the surgery. When you see her later that morning, she looks fairly well, although she is moving rather gingerly. She says she has been resting, is drinking lots of fluids, has some anorexia, but no other significant symptoms. Examination reveals a temperature of 38 degrees C and she has a fine morbilliform rash on her body, limbs and neck. There are no other abnormal findings.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gherardin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003715:Dengue / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D014195:Travel; D014329:Tropical Climate