Photo Quiz: Diarrhea and Fever in a Child Returning from Africa

Photo quiz: A 45-year-old male with rash, fever, and diarrhea.

A 45-year old male was admitted with profuse watery diarrhea, rash, and a fever. His present illness began approximately 1 week prior to admission, when he noticed a fever, chills, headache, cough, nausea, vomiting, and profuse watery diarrhea. He also developed a rash that began on his face and spread quickly over his body in less than 24 h, sparing his palms and soles. His admission temperatu...

Photo Quiz: A Cutaneous Lesion in a 66-Year-Old Traveler Returning from Thailand.

Multicenter Evaluation of Clinical Diagnostic Methods for Detection and Isolation of Campylobacter spp. from Stool Collette Fitzgerald, Mary Patrick, Anthony Gonzalez, Joshua Akin, Christopher R. Polage, Kate Wymore, Laura Gillim-Ross, Karen Xavier, Jennifer Sadlowski, Jan Monahan, Sharon Hurd, Suzanne Dahlberg, Robert Jerris, Renee Watson, Monica Santovenia, David Mitchell, Cassandra Harrison,...

Photo Quiz: A Man with Fever and Cough.

A40-year-old man with no significant past medical history developed fever, dry cough, night sweats, chills, and malaise 1 week after hiking in the mountains in Michigan. He visited his primary care physician (PCP) and was treated with oral azithromycin for 5 days with no improvement. The patient then traveled to Europe for 2 weeks. During this trip, he had daily fevers, chills, cough, and sweat...

Photo quiz. Pigmented lesion on the sole in a child.

Volume 88, Number 2 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 135 A six-year-old boy had a pigmented lesion on the sole of his foot that appeared one month earlier. He had no chronic medical problems. Physical examination showed an asymptomatic brown lesion measuring 7 mm (see accompanying figure). The margins were not well defined, and a light-gray halo surrounded the lesion. A scratch test o...

Photo quiz. A bubble under the tongue of a child.