Clinical and Laboratory Features, Hospital Course, and Outcome of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in Children

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Buckingham, Steven C ^a   Marshall, Gary S ^a   Schutze, Gordon E ^a   Woods, Charles R ^a   Jackson, Mary Anne ^a   Patterson, Lori E R ^a   Jacobs, Richard F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; INFUSION FLUID; SODIUM; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TICK BITE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VOMITING;

EID: 33846375819     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2006.11.023     Document Type: Article

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