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Clinical Practice Guidelines

  • Fever in the recently returned traveller
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Fever_in_the_recently_returned_traveller/
    national notifiable diseases and contact local health department for advice ) Any child in whom measles … Rickettsial infection Rickettsial infection Hepatitis Arboviral infections, eg Dengue, Yellow fever Measles … implicated Rashes/skin lesions Dengue, typhoid, rickettsial infections, measles, leptospirosis, syphilis …
  • NPA
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/NPA_Guideline_/
    and measles). The positive pressure rooms should not be used, as airborne viruses can 'spill …
  • Cervical lymphadenopathy
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Cervical_lymphadenopathy/
     possible exposure to tuberculosis  Exposure to animals (eg cats) Immunisation status (diphtheria, measles …
  • Kawasaki disease
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Kawasaki_disease/
    National Immunisation Handbook ). If there is high risk of measles exposure, vaccinate and repeat … and pharyngitis Measles Cough, coryza, exudative conjunctivitis without limbal sparing and cephalocaudal rash …