Azithromycin therapy for scrub typhus during pregnancy

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1538-1539

  Choi, Eun Kyoung ^a   Pai, Hyunjoo ^a  

^a Dankook University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; MACROLIDE; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG CHOICE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SCRUB TYPHUS; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

EID: 0032458776     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/517742     Document Type: Article

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