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==Fever in Traveler==
*[[Fever in traveler]]
===General===
*[[Eosinophilic fever]]
# get incubation period- if > 1mo, dengue, rickettsia, viral hem fvr less likely
*[[Traveler's diarrhea]]
# cbc c diff, thick smear, lft, ua, blood/ stool cx, cxr, serologies for specific viruses
*[[Travel skin conditions]]
*[[Parasitic diseases]]


===DDX===
#[[Malaria]]
#[[Dengue]]
#[[Leptospirosis]]
#[[Typhoid Fever]]
#[[Typhus]]
#[[Hemorrhagic Fevers]]


==CNS Changes and Fever==
'''External Links'''
# malaria, tb, typhoid fvr, rickettsia, poliomyelitis, rabies, viral (Japanese/ West Nile/ tick borne) encephalitis
* [https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel Center for Disease Control and Prevention - Travelers' Health]
# meningococcal meningitis assoc with Haj to Mecca
* [https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices Center for Disease Control and Prevention - Travel Health Notices]
# eosinophilic meningitis assoc c coccidiomycosis or angiostrongyliasis- rat lung worm to brain
# trypanosomiasis by tsetse fly- Africal sleeping sickness- red chancre at site of fly bite, fvr, ha, myalgia going to meningoencephalitis. May see trypansosomes in smear in acute phase


==Resp Sx and Fever==
==References==
# consider strep pneumonia, influenza, mycoplasma, legionella, tb
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# Q Fever- coxiella burnetti- fvr, pna, hepatitis and animal exposure
# Lofflers syn- pulm infiltrates, eosinophilia from transient migration of larval helminthes through lungs
# Cough also seen in malaria, typhoid fvr, scrub typhus, dengue
 
==Sex/ Blood Exposure and Fever==
# can have fvr without genital findings- hiv, syphilis (treponema pallidum) cmv, ebv, hep B
# also from tattoo, piercing, share razor, blood xfsn
 
==[[Eosinophilic Fever]]==
 
==[[Traveler's Diarrhea]]==
 
==[[Travel Skin Conditions]]==


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[[Category:TropMed]]
[[Category:Tropical Medicine]]

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