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History Taking and Management of a Child Presenting with Fever

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Areas to focus on: infections (viral respiratory or gastrointestinal infections, bacterial infections like otitis media, pneumonia, urinary tract infections, tuberculosis, cytomegalovirus, Epstein–Barr virus, meningitis), versus noninfectious causes (Kawasaki disease, post vaccination fever, inflammatory bowel disease, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, lymphoma, leukemia).

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Lari, S., Al Blooshi, N., Al Memari, S. (2024). History Taking and Management of a Child Presenting with Fever. In: Lari, S., Al Memari, S., Al Marzooqi, D. (eds) Family Medicine OSCE: First Aid to Objective Structured Clinical Examination. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5530-5_35

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