Failure of azithromycin in treatment of Brill-Zinsser disease

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1737-1738

  Turčinov, Drago ^a   Kuzman, Ilija ^a   Herendić, Boris ^a  

^a Croatia   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; SERODIAGNOSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TYPHUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; TREATMENT FAILURE; TYPHUS, EPIDEMIC LOUSE-BORNE;

EID: 0342313756     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.44.6.1737-1738.2000     Document Type: Article

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