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Fever of unknown origin is an HIV indicator condition, and testing should be recommended regardless of the presence or absence of additional identifiable risk factors

Summary by The BMJ
Agreement: I AgreeBody: Dear Editor, We read with interest the clinical update on ‘Fever of unknown origin’ provided by Wright et al., in the January edition of the BMJ (1). We were disappointed to see the suggestion in table 4 that testing for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) should be considered in ‘patients with fever, chills, night sweats, fatigue, myalgia, lymphadenopathy, headache, sore throat, diarrhoea and opportunistic infections plus…

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Reasons to be Cheerful broke the news in on Monday, March 17, 2025.
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