Epidemic typhus imported from Algeria

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 716-718

  Niang, M ^a   Brouqui, P ^a,b   Raoult, D ^b  

^a Hopital Felix Houphouet Boigny   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL DNA; CREATINE KINASE; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; ALGERIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LOUSE; MALE; PEDICULOSIS; RASH; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPLENOMEGALY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TYPHUS;

EID: 0032696497     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0505.990515     Document Type: Article

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