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Although an infectious disease consult was requested on the day of presentation, the patient was seen 1 week later, and the fluconazole dose was increased to 800 mg daily.
Infectious disease consultation was requested the next day, and additional exposure history was obtained from the family.
The study, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, was requested by the Brazilian health ministry to investigate the causes of the microcephaly epidemic that the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an international public health emergency earlier this year.
He was febrile on admission, and an infectious diseases consultation was requested to evaluate antibiotic drugs in view of skin and tissue cultures which had grown anaerobic organisms.
For this study, supplemental disease-specific data was requested for all patients and received in 18 cases.
An infectious diseases consultation for diagnosis was requested in 21 of 561 patients prior to the confirmation of malignancy, and 3 of these 21 patients had both infection and malignancy (leukemia (N = 13), lymphoma (N = 3), rhabdomyosarcoma (N = 1), Langerhan's cell histiocytosis (N = 1), fibrous histicocytosis (N = 1), ependymoma (N = 1), and neuroblastoma (N = 1).
In some cases, as with the gastric cancer patient, a preoperative course of chemotherapy was requested to establish disease stability and non-appearance of other disease sites.
Due to continued fever and sepsis despite maximum treatment, PET/CT was requested by infectious disease team.
Medical clearance was requested for those who reported any cardiovascular disease or back pain preventing them from exercising.
