Outbreak of scrub typhus in Jammu - A report

Medical Journal Armed Forces India

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 342-343

  Vaz, L S ^a   Gupta, N K ^b  

^a ADMS

^b MILITARY HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Eschar; Mites; Scrub typhus

Indexed keywords

BENZYL BENZOATE; MALATHION; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVAL HYPEREMIA; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALAISE; MITE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RASH; SCRUB TYPHUS; SPLENOMEGALY;

EID: 33750343170     PISSN: 03771237     EISSN: 03771237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-1237(06)80103-6     Document Type: Article

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