Imported rickettsioses: Think of murine typhus

Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 243, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 177-179

  Van Der Kleij, F G H ^a   Gansevoort, R T ^a   Kreeftenberg, H G ^a   Reitsma, W D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Murine typhus; Rickettsia typhii; Rickettsioses

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RASH; RICKETTSIOSIS; TYPHUS;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TYPHUS, ENDEMIC FLEA-BORNE;

EID: 0031959848     PISSN: 09546820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2796.1998.00266.x     Document Type: Article

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