- fever >38.3C on several occasions
- longer than 3 weeks
- with no diagnosis reached after 1 week of inpatient investigation
Causes:
- infections:
- abscesses
- TB
- malaria
- any other varient...
- malignancy
- lymphoma
- hypernephroma
- leukaemia
- atrial myxoma
- connective tissue disease
- RA
- SLE
Daily spikes: abscess; TB; schistosomiasis
Twice daily spikes: leishmaniasis
On to the final battle of the day - fitness to fly...
