Short report: Coinfection with leptospirosis and scrub typhus in Taiwanese patients

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 525-527

  Lee, Chen Hsiang ^a   Liu, Jien Wei ^a,b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LABORATORY TEST; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; OLIGURIA; SCRUB TYPHUS; SPLENOMEGALY; TAIWAN; ADOLESCENT; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ANIMALIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCRUB TYPHUS; TAIWAN;

EID: 35748959356     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2007.77.525     Document Type: Article

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