Acute Q fever in Israel: Clinical and laboratory study of 100 hospitalized patients

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 337-341

  Ergas, David ^a,b   Keysari, Avi ^c   Edelstein, Victor ^a,b   Sthoeger, Zev M ^a,b  

^a KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Band forms; Coxiella burnetii; Israel; Q fever; Urinalysis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE DURATION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS; Q FEVER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COXIELLA BURNETII; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; Q FEVER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33744484265     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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