Central nervous system involvement in patients with scrub typhus

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 436-440

  Pai, Hyunjoo ^a   Sohn, Sohee ^b   Seong, Yeonsun ^b   Kee, Sunho ^b   Chang, Woo Hyun ^b   Choe, Kang Won ^b  

^a Dankook University   (South Korea)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIOSIS; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 0031033665     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/24.3.436     Document Type: Article

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