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Case Report

Doxycycline-induced drug fever: a case report

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Pages 844-846 | Received 13 Mar 2016, Accepted 23 May 2016, Published online: 24 Jun 2016
 

Abstract

Drug fever is a febrile reaction induced by a drug without additional clinical symptoms. This adverse reaction is not rare but under diagnosed and under reported. Doxycycline is a tetracycline compound with broad-spectrum antibiotic activity. Drug fever induced by doxycycline is rarely reported. In this study, we describe a patient in whom doxycycline induced drug fever after 17 days of therapy for brucellosis.

Acknowledgments

Many thanks to Jun-Feng Kou who managed the patient.

Disclosure statement

The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest. There were no sources of funding for this work. There are no financial disclosures.

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