Clinical usefulness of eschar polymerase chain reaction for the diagnosis of scrub typhus: A prospective study

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1296-1300

  Kim, Dong Min ^a   Kim, Hyun Lee ^a   Park, Chi Young ^a   Yang, Tae Young ^b   Lee, Ji Hyun ^c   Yang, Jong Tae ^d   Shim, Soo Kyoung ^e   Lee, Seung Hyun ^a,f  

^a Chosun University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Haenam General Hospital   (South Korea)

^c Jangheung General Hospital   (South Korea)

^d Muan General Hospital   (South Korea)

^e Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   (South Korea)

^f Seonam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; MACROLIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EVALUATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; SCRUB TYPHUS;

ADULT; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCRUB TYPHUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33750696041     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/508464     Document Type: Article

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