Answer 31
A fever of two weeks' duration associated with neutropaenia is characteristically due to
True a. disseminated tuberculosis
True b. brucellosis
True c. malaria
False d. influenza B
False e. amoebic liver abscess
The following may cause fever two weeks and neutropaenia:
malaria
brucellosis
typhoid
disseminated tuberculosis
visceral leishmaniasis.
Viral infections more characteristically have lymphocytosis and are often shorter than two weeks' duration.
There is neutrophilia in 90% of patients with amoebic liver abscess.
