Need to increase awareness among family doctors and medical specialists of rickettsioses as an import disease in non-endemic areas

Netherlands Journal of Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 186-189

  Nur, Y A ^a   Brandenburg, A ^a   Niesters, H G M ^a   Wagenaar, J A ^b   Osterhaus, A D M E ^a   Groen, J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Imported disease; Rickettsia; Typhus

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CASE REPORT; CHILL; FEVER; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEADACHE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIOSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; TICK; TRAVEL; VOMITING;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; SKIN;

EID: 0034035033     PISSN: 03002977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-2977(00)00012-7     Document Type: Article

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