Epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of Q fever

Japanese Journal of Chemotherapy

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 461-469

  Watanabe, Akira ^a   Takahashi, Hiroshi ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Saka General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coxiella burnetii

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; LINCOMYCIN; MACROLIDE; MEROPENEM; MINOCYCLINE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BRONCHITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFICACY; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; MALAISE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; Q FEVER; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RICKETTSIA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUMMER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEITIS;

EID: 0042327745     PISSN: 13407007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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