MCQs in Tropical Medicine

Rob Skelly DTM+H FRCP

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Prolonged fever with neutropaenia

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The following may cause fever two weeks and neutropaenia:
malaria
brucellosis
typhoid
disseminated tuberculosis
visceral leishmaniasis.

Viral infections more characteristically have lymphocytosis and are often shorter than two weeks' duration.

There is neutrophilia in 90% of patients with amoebic liver abscess.