Controlled trial of a 5-day course of telithromycin versus doxycycline for treatment of mild to moderate scrub typhus

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2011-2015

  Kim, Dong Min ^a   Ki, Dong Yu ^a   Ji, Hyun Lee ^b   Hyun, Kuk Kim ^c   Lee, Seung Hyun ^d  

^a Chosun University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Jangheung General Hospital   (South Korea)

^c Cheomdan General Hospital   (South Korea)

^d Seonam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; TELITHROMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ESOPHAGUS CANDIDIASIS; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SIDE EFFECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TYPHUS; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DOXYCYCLINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KETOLIDES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCRUB TYPHUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34250200110     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01460-06     Document Type: Article

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