visceral leishmaniasis (vl) is a sever disease that is prevalent in iran. we report a case of vl in a 3.5 year-old boy. prolonged fever, chill, abdominal distention, and weight loss were important symptoms. blood count showed pancytopenia and hypohemoglobinemia. specific anti-leishmanial antibodies were detected by serological test (ifat, dat) but no leishman body was observed in bone marrow. h...

A case of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteremia in an HIV negative immunodepressed patient was described using the BACTEC 460 TB system. This bacterium should be investigated in the blood of immunodepressed non-HIV infected patients with prolonged fever.

background: brucellosis is one of the most common infectious diseases in some areas of iran. brucellosis has various clinical manifestations and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of many infectious and non-infectious diseases. the aims of this study were to determine the epidemiological, clinical and laboratory findings of the disease in patients with brucellosis in hamadan, we...

Prolonged unexplained fever is one of the most challenging problems encountered in clinical medicine. We report the case of a patient with an uncommon cause of Pyrexia of Unknown Origin (PUO).

A 41 year old HIV infected man with an extensive travel history developed intermittent fever and weight loss shortly after returning from abroad. Extensive and prolonged investigation identified the cause.

Coxiella burnetii infection (Q fever) is a widespread zoonosis with low endemicity in Switzerland, therefore no mandatory public report was required. A cluster of initially ten human cases of acute Q fever infections characterized by prolonged fever, asthenia and mild hepatitis occurred in 2012 in the terraced vineyard of Lavaux. Epidemiological investigations based on patients' interviews and ...

Background: Fever is the most common complain of a child presenting to health care setting. A prolonged fever however, an intriguing challenge for clinicians and remains overly medicated inappropriately worked up, provided systemic approach not followed. Our study aims find etiologic diagnosis in these cases fever. Methods: The present was conducted tertiary hospital southern Rajasthan over per...

background: jaundice is a common condition among neonates. prolonged unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia occurs when jaundice persists beyond two weeks in term neonates and three weeks in preterm neonates. this study aimed to determine the etiologies of prolonged unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia in infants admitted to the neonatal ward of besat hospital in hamadan, iran. methods: this study was cond...