Clinical study of 20 children with scrub typhus at Chiang Rai Regional Hospital

Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1867-1872

  Chanta, Chulapong ^a   Chanta, Suwalee ^a  

^a Chiang Rai Prachanukraw Hospital   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Clinical feature; Complication; Scrub typhus

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; ROXITHROMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; EDEMA; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG EDEMA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MALE; MENINGITIS; PETECHIA; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RASH; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEROLOGY; SHOCK; SPLENOMEGALY; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 33244459123     PISSN: 01252208     EISSN: 01252208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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