Murine typhus: A newly recognised problem in the Waikato region of New Zealand

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 1259, 2007, Pages

  Gray, Erana ^a,b   Atatoa Carr, Polly ^a   Bell, Anita ^c   Roberts, Sally ^d   Al Mudallal, Daud ^e   Mills, Graham D ^a  

^a WAIKATO DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD   (New Zealand)

^b Rotorua Hospital   (New Zealand)

^c Public Health Unit   (New Zealand)

^d AUCKLAND DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD   (New Zealand)

^e Thames Hospital   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FEVER; FLEA; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INSECT BITE; INTERVIEW; LENGTH OF STAY; LETHARGY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MYALGIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEW ZEALAND; PEST CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RASH; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SEROLOGY; SYMPTOM; TELEPHONE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TYPHUS; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; MIDDLE AGED; RAT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; RATS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; TYPHUS, ENDEMIC FLEA-BORNE;

EID: 34548425624     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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