The first reported case of spotted fever in Fukui Prefecture, the northern part of central Japan

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 112-114

  Noji, Yoshihiro ^a,f   Takada, Nobuhiro ^b   Ishiguro, Fubito ^c   Fujino, Susumu ^a   Aoyama, Takahiko ^a   Fujita, Hiromi ^d   Yano, Yasuhiro ^b   Shiomi, Syunichi ^e   Mitsuto, Isamu ^a   Takase, Keiichiro ^a   Haba, Toshihiro ^a   Mabuchi, Hiroshi ^f  

^a Fukui Prefectural Hospital   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^c Fukui Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science   (Japan)

^d Ohara General Hospital   (Japan)

^e Shiomi Hospital   (Japan)

^f KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CEFDINIR; MINOCYCLINE; PEROXIDASE; PRANOPROFEN;

ADULT; ARM DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ERYTHEMA; FATIGUE; FEVER; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFESTATION; JAPAN; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MICROORGANISM; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RASH; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIOSIS; SCRUB TYPHUS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINOCYCLINE; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

EID: 19944374458     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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