Fever in the Elderly
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- 1 July 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 31 (1) , 148-151
- https://doi.org/10.1086/313896
Abstract
Infections in the elderly, similar to other acute illnesses in this age group, may present in atypical, nonclassical fashions. Fever, the cardinal siKeywords
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