Case Studies

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Core Cases:

• 1. A young, previously fit man with a 1 week history of a ’flu-like illness
• 2. A patient presents at A&E following a coronary artery bypass graft
• 3. A 19-year-old woman with a shivers, severe headache and photophobia
• 4. A 68-year-old woman with a defunctioning colostomy to relieve bowel obstruction
• 5. A returning traveller with watery diarrhoea
• 6. A 65-year-old with cough, blood-stained sputum and occasional mild fevers
• 7. A 42-year-old woman with sweats, back ache, loin pain and fever
• 8. A 25-year-old student with a fever
• 9. A 61-year-old with a high fever with muscle aches and pains and coryzal symptoms
• 10. A 52-year-old dialysis patient with suspected tuberculosis
• 11. A 29-year-old man presents with fever and generalised lymphadenopathy
• 12. A 75-year-old man with suspected shingles
• 13. A 26-year-old woman who is 27 weeks pregnant presents in labour
• 14. A 36-year-old patient presents several hours after eating tinned fish
• 15. A 26-year-old man who had taken illicit drugs
• 16. An 18-year-old female ‘gap-year’ student with fever, myalgia and weakness
• 17. A 32-year-old man with fever, headache and myalgia
• 18. A 55-year-old woman with shortness of breath, fever, and cough
• 19. A 2-year-old child with a febrile convulsion
• 20. A 32-year-old man with a discharging sinus below his left knee
• 21. A 25-year-old man with end-stage renal failure
• 22. A 44-year-old man who presented with an episode of collapse
• 23. A 73-year-old woman in a care of the elderly ward develops diarrhea