Tsutsugamushi disease (scrub typhus)-associated hemophagocytic syndrome [2]

International Journal of Hematology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 337-338

  Takami, Akiyoshi ^a   Yamauchi, Hiromasa ^b   Asakura, Hidesaku ^a   Ishiyama, Ken ^a   Nakao, Shinji ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Kurobe City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; MINOCYCLINE; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SCRUB TYPHUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; HISTIOCYTOSIS;

AGED; DOXYCYCLINE; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOSIS, NON-LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; PREDNISOLONE; SCRUB TYPHUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036547318     PISSN: 09255710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02982054     Document Type: Letter

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