Murine typhus. A disease to think now and here;Tifus endémico (murino). Una enfermedad en la que pensar aquí y ahora

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 122, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 383-389

  Bolaños, Margarita ^a   Angel Moreno, Alfonso ^a,b   Pérez Arellano, José Luis ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO INSULAR DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBODY; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; JOSAMYCIN; MACROLIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; TELITHROMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANEMIA; ARTHRALGIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; DIARRHEA; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; INOCULATION; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RASH; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RURAL AREA; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX RATIO; SPAIN; SPLENOMEGALY; SYMPTOM; TAXONOMY; TICK; TYPHUS; URBAN AREA; VOMITING;

EID: 2342557941     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13059326     Document Type: Review

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