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This case report is of a woman who had fever at night for several days and other clinical signs which were likely related to cracked dental mercury amalgam.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Case presentation<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>A healthy women developed fever many days after had cracked a mercury dental amalgam filling. Blood tests evidenced increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate, anemia and elevated white cell count; symptoms were headache and palpitations. Blood tests and symptoms normalized within three weeks of removal of the dental amalgam.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>This case highlights the possible link between mercury vapor exposure from cracked dental amalgam and early activation of the immune system leading to fever of unknown origin.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/1752-1947-2-72","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2008,3,6]],"date-time":"2008-03-06T19:14:17Z","timestamp":1204830857000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Cracked mercury dental amalgam as a possible cause of fever of unknown origin: a case report"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"2","author":[{"given":"Fabrizia","family":"Bamonti","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Gianpaolo","family":"Guzzi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Maria Elena","family":"Ferrero","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2008,3,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"259_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"537","DOI":"10.1080\/10408440701385770","volume":"37","author":"J Mutter","year":"2007","unstructured":"Mutter J, Naumann J, Guethli C: Comments on the article \"the toxicology of mercury and its chemical compounds\" by Clarkson and Magos (2006). 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