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Appropriate inpatient clinical syndromes according to PPID (8) and the distribution of patients admitted to the general medicine teaching service from July through October of 2002. |
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| Major Clinical Syndromes |
Patients |
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| Fever |
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| Fever of Unknown Origin (Neutropenia) |
6 (2) |
| Upper Respiratory |
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| Pharyngitis |
2 |
| Infections of head and neck |
1 |
| Pleuropulmonary |
|
| Acute Bronchitis |
16 |
| Chronic Bronchitis |
20 |
| Acute Pneumonia |
31 |
| Empyema |
2 |
| Chronic Pneumonia |
1 |
| Cystic Fibrosis |
1 |
| Urinary Tract |
22 |
| Sepsis Syndrome |
3 |
| Peritonitis and Other Intra-abdominal Infections |
3 |
| Cardiovascular |
|
| Endocarditis |
2 |
| Central Nervous System |
|
| Acute Meningitis |
6 |
| Encephalitis |
1 |
| Brain Abscess |
1 |
| Soft Tissue |
|
| Cellulitis and subcutaneous Tissue Infections |
40 |
| Lymphadenitis and Lymphangitis |
2 |
| Gastrointestinal |
|
| Inflammatory Enteritides |
20 |
| Abdominal Symptoms and Fever |
7 |
| Bone and Joint |
|
| Infectious Arthritis |
1 |
| Osteomyelitis |
8 |
| STD |
|
| Prostatitis, Epididymitis and Orchitis |
1 |
| Eye |
|
| Peri-ocular Infections |
2 |
| HIV |
|
| Pulmonary Manifestations in HIV |
5 |
| CNS Manifestations in HIV |
1 |
Burdette et al. Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2004 3:22 doi:10.1186/1476-0711-3-22 |
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