Sensorineural hearing loss complicating severe rickettsial diseases: Report of two cases

Journal of Infection

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 74-76

  Tsiachris, Dimitris ^a   Deutsch, Melanie ^a   Vassilopoulos, Dimitris ^a   Zafiropoulou, Rodessa ^a   Archimandritis, Athanasios J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Murine typhus; Rickettsia conorii; Rickettsia typhi; Sensorineural hearing loss

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG RESPONSE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; LEUKOCYTOCLASTIC VASCULITIS; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MONOTHERAPY; MYALGIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RICKETTSIOSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; DOXYCYCLINE; HEARING LOSS, SUDDEN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; TYPHUS, ENDEMIC FLEA-BORNE;

EID: 37149054301     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2007.10.002     Document Type: Article

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