Aseptic meningitis as a delayed neurologic complication of murine typhus [2]

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 826-827

  Vallejo Maroto, I ^a   Garcia Morillo S ^a   Wittel, M B ^a   Stiefel, P ^a   Miranda, M ^a   Pamies, E ^a   Aparicio, R ^a   Carneado, J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTHRALGIA; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; ASTHENIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DIPLOPIA; DRUG PENETRATION; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LETTER; MALE; MYALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; TYPHUS;

MURINAE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA TYPHI;

EID: 0036940119     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0691.2002.00502.x     Document Type: Letter

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