Scrub typhus

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1254-1257

  Pavithran, Sreeja ^a   Mathai, Elizabeth ^a   Moses, Prabhakar D ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

India; Scrub typhus

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; MANNITOL; PHENYTOIN; ROXITHROMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEROLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; DOXYCYCLINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 11944269160     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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