Evaluation of National Tsutsugamushi disease surveillance-Japan, 2000

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 197-203

  Matsui, Tamano ^a,b   Kramer, Michael H ^a,c   Mendlein, James M ^c   Osaka, Ken ^a   Ohyama, Takaaki ^a   Takahashi, Hiroshi ^a   Ono, Tomomichi ^b   Okabe, Nobuhiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; OCCUPATION; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SCRUB TYPHUS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036954434     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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