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A 50-year-old woman presented to the Urgent Care Clinic with myalgias, lymphadenopathy, and rash 3 days after returning from a trip to the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. There she had worked as a volunteer healthcare provider, participating in home visits to patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection and tuberculosis. One month prior to departure, she visited a travel clinic and received hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and typhoid fever vaccines. She received a prescription for atovaquone/proguanil (Malarone) for malaria prophylaxis and was counseled on insect precautions.

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  1. Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

    Shirley Stephenson R.N., F.N.P.-B.C.

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  1. Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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    Jean-Luc Benoit

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Stephenson, S. (2018). Vexing Vectors. In: David, M., Benoit, JL. (eds) The Infectious Disease Diagnosis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64906-1_19

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