The typhus group

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 271-278

  Baxter, John D ^a  

^a Department of Anesthesiology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL DERIVATIVE; DOXYCYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEVER; HEADACHE; LOUSE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; SCRUB TYPHUS; TYPHUS;

EID: 0029890987     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0738-081X(96)00011-9     Document Type: Article

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