An 8-month-old male child with an uneventful history presented with a fever of 1-month duration.Fever was of the intermittent type,a low grade with one or two spikes per day and an active interfebrile period.He was ev...An 8-month-old male child with an uneventful history presented with a fever of 1-month duration.Fever was of the intermittent type,a low grade with one or two spikes per day and an active interfebrile period.He was eval-uated for common infections like urinary tract infection and pneumonia initially in the primary health center.His initial blood counts and cultures were sterile,and the chest X-ray(CXR)was normal.He was managed with empirical antibiotics for 1–2 weeks,often with no/mini-mal response.展开更多
文摘An 8-month-old male child with an uneventful history presented with a fever of 1-month duration.Fever was of the intermittent type,a low grade with one or two spikes per day and an active interfebrile period.He was eval-uated for common infections like urinary tract infection and pneumonia initially in the primary health center.His initial blood counts and cultures were sterile,and the chest X-ray(CXR)was normal.He was managed with empirical antibiotics for 1–2 weeks,often with no/mini-mal response.
