Paediatric scrub typhus in Thailand: A study of 73 confirmed cases

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 354-359

  Silpapojakul, Kamkarn ^a   Varachit, Boonyarat ^a   Silpapojakul, Khachornsakdi ^b  

^a HATYAI HOSPITAL   (Thailand)

^b PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Chiggers; Children; Eschar; Orientia tsutsugamushi; Scrub typhus; Thailand

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; RASH; RURAL AREA; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEX RATIO; SKIN DEFECT; SPLENOMEGALY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TACHYPNEA; THAILAND; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING; HEALTH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACARI; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL HEALTH; SCRUB TYPHUS; THAILAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042784231     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2003.10.011     Document Type: Article

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