High Fever and Evidence of a Virus? Caution, it Still May Be Kawasaki Disease
Monday, November 5, 2012 - 12:32
in Health & Medicine
Clinicians should take caution when diagnosing a child who has a high fever and whose tests show evidence of adenovirus, and not assume the virus is responsible for Kawasaki-like symptoms. According to a new study from Nationwide Children's Hospital appearing in Clinical Infectious Diseases, adenovirus detection is not uncommon among children with Kawasaki disease.