Severe Japanese spotted fever successfully treated with fluoroquinolone

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 1323-1326

  Seki, Masafumi ^a   Ikari, Naruhiko ^b   Yamamoto, Seigo ^c   Yamagata, Yuhki ^b   Kosai, Kosuke ^a   Yanagihara, Katsunori ^a   Kakugawa, Tomoyuki ^b   Kurihara, Shintaro ^a   Izumikawa, Koichi ^a   Miyazaki, Yoshitsugu ^a   Higashiyama, Yasuhito ^a   Hirakata, Yoichi ^a   Tashiro, Takayoshi ^a   Kohno, Shigeru ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b KITAKYUSHU CITY YAHATA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Miyazaki Prefectural Institute for Public Health and Environment   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fluoroquinolone; Haemaphysalis hystricis; Japanese spotted fever; Rickettsia japonica; Tick

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; CIPROFLOXACIN; MINOCYCLINE; PANIPENEM PLUS BETAMIPRON; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; JAPAN; JAPANESE SPOTTED FEVER; LARVAL STAGE; MALAISE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RASH; RICKETTSIA JAPONICA; RICKETTSIOSIS; SCRUB TYPHUS; SERODIAGNOSIS; TICK BITE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AGED; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FLUOROQUINOLONES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MINOCYCLINE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETREATMENT; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TICKS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845672276     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1831     Document Type: Article

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