Fever Health Article

BOOKS

Barlam, Tamar F., and Dennis L. Kasper. "Approach to the Acutely Ill Infected Febrile Patient." In Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 15th ed. Edited by Eugene Braunwald et al. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001, pp. 95–101.

Beutler, Bruce, and Steven M. Beutler. "The Pathogenesis of Fever." In Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 22nd ed. Edited by Lee Goldman et al. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2003, pp. 1730–32.

Bisno, Alan L. "Rheumatic Fever." In Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 22nd ed. Edited by Lee Goldman et al. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2003, pp. 1788–93.

Dale, David C. "The Febrile Patient." In Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 22nd ed. Edited by Lee Goldman et al. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2003, pp. 1729–30.

Dinarello, Charles A., and Jeffrey A. Gelfand. "Fever and Hyperthermia." In Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 15th ed. Edited by Eugene Braunwald et al. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001, pp. 91–4.

Dumler, J. Stephen. "Q Fever (Coxiella burnetii)." In Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 17th ed. Edited by Richard E. Behrman et al. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2003, pp. 1009–10.

——. "Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses." In Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 17th ed. Edited by Richard E. Behrman et al. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2003, pp. 999–1003.

Halstead, Scott B. "Yellow Fever." In Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 17th ed. Edited by Richard E. Behrman et al. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2003, pp. 1095–6.

——. "Dengue Fever and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever." In Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 17th ed. Edited by Richard E. Behrman et al. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2003, pp. 1092–4.

Kaye, Elaine T., and Kenneth M. Kaye. "Fever and Rash." In Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 15th ed. Edited by Eugene Braunwald et al. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001, pp. 95–101.

Powell, Keith R. "Fever without a Focus." In Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 17th ed. Edited by Richard E. Behrman et al. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2003, pp. 841–5.

——. "Fever." In Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 17th ed. Edited by Richard E. Behrman et al. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2003, pp. 839–40.

PERIODICALS

Dinarello, C. A. "Infection, fever, and exogenous and endogenous pyrogens: some concepts have changed." Journal of Endotoxin Research 10, no. 4 (2004): 201–22.

Galache, C., et al. "Q fever: a new cause of 'doughnut' granulomatous lobular panniculitis." British Journal of Dermatology 151, no. 3 (2004): 685–7.

Huang, S. Y., et al. "Effect of Recent Antipyretic Use on Measured Fever in the Pediatric Emergency Department." Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicone 158, no. 10 (2004): 972–6.

ORGANIZATIONS

American Academy of Emergency Medicine. 611 East Wells St., Milwaukee, WI 53202. Web site: <www.aaem.org/>.

American Academy of Pediatrics. 141 Northwest Point Boulevard, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007–1098. Web site: <www.aap.org/>.

American Association of Naturopathic Physicians. 8201 Greensboro Drive, Suite 300, McLean, VA 22102. Web site: <naturopathic.org/>.

American Society of Clinical Pathologists. 2100 West Harrison Street, Chicago IL 60612. Web site: <www.ascp.org/index.asp>.

College of American Pathologists. 325 Waukegan Road, Northfield, IL 60093. Web site: <www.cap.org/>.

Meningitis Foundation of America Inc. 7155 Shadeland Station, Suite 190, Indianapolis, IN 46256–3922. Web site: <www.musa.org/default.htm>.

WEB SITES

"Fever." MedlinePlus. Available online at <www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003090.htm> (accessed January 6, 2005).

"Typhoid Fever." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Available online at <www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/typhoidfever_g.htm> (accessed January 6, 2005).

"Yellow Fever." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Available online at <www.cdc.gov/travel/diseases/yellowfever.htm> (accessed January 6, 2005).

"Yellow Fever." World Health Organization. Available online at <www.who.int/csr/disease/yellowfev/en/> (accessed January 6, 2005).

L. Fleming Fallon Jr., MD, DrPH