Tick-Borne recurrent fever. Description of 5 cases;Fiebre recurrente transmitida por garrapatas. Descripción de 5 casos

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 78-81

  Sánchez Yebra, Waldo ^a   Díaz, Enrique ^a   Molina, Pedro ^a   Sedeño, Jesús ^a   Giner, Pilar ^a   Del Mar Vitutia, María ^b   Anda, Pedro ^b  

^a Hospital General Basico   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Borrelia spp; Lyme disease; Relapsing fever

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BORRELIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MALE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPAIN; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BORRELIA; DOXYCYCLINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RELAPSING FEVER;

EID: 0030976106     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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