Murine typhus as a common cause of fever of intermediate duration: A 17- year study in the south of Spain

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 159, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 872-876

  Bernabeu Wittel, Máximo ^a   Pachon J ^a   Alarcon A ^a   Lopes Cortes L F ^a   Viciana, P ^a   Jimenez Mejias M E ^a   Villanueva, J L ^a   Torronteras, R ^a   Caballero Granado, F J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INSECT BITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYALGIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RASH; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPAIN; TYPHUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHILD; FEVER; FLUOROIMMUNOASSAY; HUMANS; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; SEASONS; SPAIN; TIME FACTORS; TYPHUS, EPIDEMIC LOUSE-BORNE;

EID: 0033606110     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.159.8.872     Document Type: Article

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