Osler on typhoid fever: Differentiating typhoid from typhus and malaria

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 111-125

  Cunha, Burke A ^a,b  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSTIPATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPISTAXIS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALARIA; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SPLENOMEGALY; TYPHOID FEVER; TYPHUS;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALARIA; TYPHOID FEVER; TYPHUS, EPIDEMIC LOUSE-BORNE;

EID: 1842688126     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5520(03)00094-1     Document Type: Review

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