CASE 54 A 27-year-old woman was seen in a clinic for complaints of fevers, chills, headache, malaise, anorexia, and abdominal pain for several days. She stated she came today because…
CASE 64 A 28-year-old Hispanic man was brought to the emergency department of a general hospital for severe headaches and two generalized seizures. He had first noticed headaches, which had…
CASE 51 A 49-year-old woman presented with high fever and chills, jaundice, and upper abdominal pain for 3 days. The patient was a recent immigrant from Argentina. One year before,…
CASE 91 A 44-year-old female presented to the emergency department with complaints of fever, cough, myalgias, and mild shortness of breath for 2 days. She also had a moderate headache…
CASE 88 In early summer, a previously healthy 42-year-old man was admitted to his local hospital with a 1-week history of fever, muscle aches, and malaise. For 2 days before…
CASE 63 A 30-year-old white woman was brought to the emergency department of a local hospital with a 2-week history of progressively severe headache, nausea, and vomiting; several seizures had…
CASE 79 A 9-year-old boy was brought to the hospital by his parents with complaints of repeating intense chills and daily high fever for 4 days. The parents said that…
CASE 75 A 55-year-old woman presented to her family physician with a 3-day history of burning and pain over her left forearm. The symptoms were rather abrupt in onset, and…
CASE 72 A 58-year-old man presented with a 3-week history of progressive, mildly painful skin lesions on his left arm that had begun with an erythematous lesion on his left…
CASE 71 An 8-year-old white boy was brought to the dermatology clinic for the examination of raised lesions on his head. He was otherwise healthy. The lesions were first noticed…
