Tropical Doctor > Volume 38, Number 4 > Pp. 221-222

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Fever of unknown origin in the elderly: nine years experience in China

Minghua Zheng MD   ^*   Hailong Lin MD      Sheng Luo MD      Lihua Xu MD      Yanjun Zeng PhD   ^¶    Yongping Chen MD   ^*

^* Department of Infection and Department of Liver Diseases; Department of Rehabilitation, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou 325000; Department of Pediatric Infection, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou 325000; Department of Hematology; ^¶ Biomedical Engineering Center, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China

Correspondence to: Yanjun Zeng, Biomedical Engineering Center, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China Email: yjzeng{at}bjut.edu.cn

This is a retrospective study of older patients admitted to the First and Second Affiliated Hospitals of Wenzhou Medical College, China, with a diagnosis of fever of unknown origin. The study took place from January 1998 to December 2006 among 102 patients who fulfilled the criteria. Infections were responsible for 50 cases (49.1%), followed by no diagnosis in 27 (26.5%), miscellaneous in nine (8.8%), neoplasms in eight (7.8%) and connective tissue disease in another eight (7.8%). Mycobacterium TB was the most frequent type of infection diagnosed.

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