Human granulocytic anaplasmosis during pregnancy: Case series and literature review

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 589-593

  Dhand, Abhay ^a   Nadelman, Robert B ^a   Aguero Rosenfeld, Maria ^a   Haddad, Fadi A ^a,c   Stokes, Daniela P ^b   Horowitz, Harold W ^a,d  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Hudson Valley Infectious Diseases PC   (United States)

^c NYU School of Medicine ^*

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DOXYCYCLINE; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEW YORK; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RIFAMPIN;

EID: 34548264575     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/520659     Document Type: Article

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