Rickettsialpox-like illness in a traveler

Military Medicine

Volumn 162, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 636-639

  Angeloni, Vincent L ^a   Keller, Richard A ^a   Walker, David H ^b  

^a BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CASE REPORT; FEVER; HUMAN; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RASH; RICKETTSIOSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; TRAVEL;

EID: 0030844220     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/162.9.636     Document Type: Article

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