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Altered Mental Status in Febrile Returning Traveler

See Also
1. Fever in the Returning Traveler
2. Altered Level of Consciousness
Causes
1. Bacterial Infection
2. Viral Infection
  1. Japanese Encephalitis
  2. Rabies
  3. Yellow Fever
  4. Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
3. Parasitic Infection
  1. African Trypanosomiasis
  2. Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum
Differential Diagnosis
1. See Altered Level of Consciousness Causes
References
1. Lo Re (2003) Am Fam Physician 68(7):1343
2. Strickland (1992) Med Clin North Am 76:1375

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