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MeSH Heading: Fever of Unknown Origin
Tree Number(s): C23.888.119.344.345
Unique ID: D005335
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005335
Annotation: referred to as FUO; for ultimate determ of cause or origin coord FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN /‌etiol (IM) (not /‌diag) + disease /‌compl (IM) (not /‌diag)
Scope Note: Fever in which the etiology cannot be ascertained.
Previous Indexing: Fever (1966-1970)
Public MeSH Note: 74
History Note: 74(71)
Date Established: 1974/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1999/11/03

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Fever of Unknown Origin MeSH Descriptor Data 2025