Childhood scrub typhus in eastern Taiwan: Ten-year experience from a medical center

Acta Paediatrica Taiwanica

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Yang, Shang Hsien ^a   Ho, Yu Huai ^a   Chu, Chia Hsiang ^a   Chu, Shao Yin ^a  

^a BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Hemophagocytic syndrome; Meningoencephalitis; Scrub typhus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFRADINE; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MINOCYCLINE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEALTH CENTER; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCRUB TYPHUS; TAIWAN; TROMBICULIDAE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 42149139064     PISSN: 16088115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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