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© 1985 Oxford University Press

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FEVER IN THE ELDERLY

P. BERMAN, Clinical Research Fellow* and R. A. FOX, Professor{dagger}

Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Camp Hill Hospital 1763 Robie Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3G2
*Senior Registrar in Geriatric and General Medicine, Radcliffe Infirmary and John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK. Recipient of a research award from Dalhousie University Internal Medicine Research Fund and travel grants from British Geriatrics Society and the Wellcome Trust.

{dagger}Address Correspondence to Dr R. A. Fox.

Infection is an important problem in the elderly and it is not unusual for fever to be absent. This review examines our present state of knowledge of the febrile response and considers its apparent impairment in old age.

accepted in revised form June 26, 1985.


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