Tularaemia in an emergent area in Sweden: An analysis of 234 cases in five years

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 880-889

  Eliasson, Henrik ^a   Bäck, Erik ^a,b  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BRADYCARDIA; CHILD; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; LABORATORY TEST; LETHALITY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MONOTHERAPY; PRESCRIPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELAPSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SWEDEN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TULAREMIA; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN ULCER; SWEDEN; TULAREMIA;

EID: 34748858629     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540701402970     Document Type: Article

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