The history of epidemic typhus

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 127-140

  Raoult, Didier ^a   Woodward, Theodore ^b   Dumler, J Stephen ^c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTHRALGIA; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; PNEUMONIA; RASH; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; TYPHUS; VOMITING;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; TYPHUS, EPIDEMIC LOUSE-BORNE;

EID: 1842788945     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5520(03)00093-X     Document Type: Review

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