Erschienen in:
01.02.2013 | Case Report
The tropics and the crime they did not commit
verfasst von:
A. Goorhuis, P. P. A. M. van Thiel, S. Middeldorp, B. L. F. van Eck, M. P. Grobusch
Erschienen in:
Infection
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Ausgabe 1/2013
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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.