Scrub typhus in the Torres Strait islands of North Queensland, Australia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 480-482

  Faa, Antony G ^b   McBride, William J H ^a   Garstone, Gaynor ^b   Thompson, Robert E ^b   Holt, Peter ^b  

^a CAIRNS BASE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; MALE; MITE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; SCRUB TYPHUS; VEGETATION; ADOLESCENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUEENSLAND; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 0038023132     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0904.020509     Document Type: Article

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