| Literature DB >> 27339030 |
Hai-Ling Yuan1, Ning-Wei Lu2, Hua Xie1, Yuan-Yuan Zheng1, Qiu-Hong Wang1.
Abstract
Drug fever is a febrile reaction induced by a drug without additional clinical symptoms. This adverse reaction is not rare but under diagnosed and under reported. Doxycycline is a tetracycline compound with broad-spectrum antibiotic activity. Drug fever induced by doxycycline is rarely reported. In this study, we describe a patient in whom doxycycline induced drug fever after 17 days of therapy for brucellosis.Entities:
Keywords: Adverse reaction; doxycycline; drug fever
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27339030 DOI: 10.1080/23744235.2016.1195915
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infect Dis (Lond) ISSN: 2374-4243