Fever in a Returned French Sailor

Fever in a returned French sailor.

Figure 1. Three Giemsa-stained smears (A, B, and C) of peripheral blood (original magnification, ϫ1000) A previously healthy 26-year-old French sailor presented to our hospital with a 5-day history of fever accompanied by chills. He reported having participated in a mission 6 months earlier that involved travel to Bombay, India; Abu-Dhabi, Saudi Ara-bia; Monbassa, Kenya; and Djibouti, Republic ...

Fever in a returned traveler: an "off the cuff" diagnosis.

Figure 1. Islands of normal skin surrounded by blanching erythema on the abdomen of a 21-year-old woman who returned from travel in Sri Lanka. Diagnosis: Dengue fever. The most commonly diagnosed tropical infections that cause fever in the returned traveler are malaria, dengue, typhoid, and viral hepatitis [1]. The epidemiology may change with appropriate pretravel vaccination and use of malari...

Fever in a returned traveller from West Africa.

Chikungunya fever in Canada: fever and polyarthritis in a returned traveller.

A returned traveller with persistent fever due to murine typhus.

Murine (endemic) typhus is a notifiable disease in Hong Kong, but its diagnosis can be difficult. We report a case of murine typhus in a middle-aged man who presented with persistent fever, headache, and skin rash 2 weeks after returning from a visit to China. The diagnosis of murine typhus requires a high index of suspicion for a febrile patient with a history of potential exposure to the dise...