Ticks and Human Babesiosis

Infections in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 319-320+326

  Goddard, Jerome ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Bureau of Environmental Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Babesia microti; Babesiosis; Clindamycin; Quinine

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; CLINDAMYCIN; HEXACYCLINE; MEPACRINE; PRIMAQUINE; PYRIMETHAMINE; QUININE; SULFADIAZINE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BABESIOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; REVIEW; TICK;

EID: 0032938216     PISSN: 07496524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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