Kinetics of inflammatory cytokines in patients with scrub typhus receiving doxycycline treatment

Journal of Infection

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 44-50

  Chung, Doo Ryeon ^a   Lee, Young Seok ^a   Lee, Seung Soon ^a  

^a Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Doxycycline; Orientia tsutsugamushi; Scrub typhus; TNF

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; DOXYCYCLINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MESSENGER RNA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCRUB TYPHUS; T LYMPHOCYTE; UPREGULATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DOXYCYCLINE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SCRUB TYPHUS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 37149040372     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2007.09.009     Document Type: Article

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