An unusual site of chigger bite in a patient with scrub typhus

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 159-161

  Mei Lau, Sheung ^a   Liang Yu, Wen ^a   Hsien Wang, Jen ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; MINOCYCLINE; SULTAMICILLIN;

AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FEVER; GENITAL SYSTEM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INGUINAL REGION; INSECT BITE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SCRUB TYPHUS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGED; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; MITES; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 0344718661     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(99)00066-8     Document Type: Article

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