Tick-borne relapsing fever

American Family Physician

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2039-2044

  Roscoe, Clay ^a   Epperly, Ted ^a,b  

^a Family Medicine Residency of Idaho ^*  (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; INSECT REPELLENT; MACROLIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOTHING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FATALITY; FEVER; HEALTH STATUS; HERXHEIMER REACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFESTATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REVIEW; RODENT; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SHOCK; SMEAR; SPIROCHETE; TICK BITE; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TICK BORNE RELAPSING FEVER; VOMITING;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORNITHODOROS; RELAPSING FEVER; TETRACYCLINES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 27844603261     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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