Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 449-468

  Dworkin, Mark S ^a   Schwan, Tom G ^b   Anderson Jr , Donald E ^c   Borchardt, Stephanie M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Fargo VA Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISONE; PROCAINE; TETRACYCLINE;

BLEEDING; BLOODY DIARRHEA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPISTAXIS; EYE DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEART DISEASE; HEMATEMESIS; HEMATURIA; HEMOPTYSIS; HERXHEIMER REACTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LOUSE; LUNG DISEASE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; ORNITHODOROS HEMSI; ORNITHODOROS TURICATA; PATHOGENESIS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PURPURA; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; REVIEW; SERODIAGNOSIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN DISEASE; SPLEEN DISEASE; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BORRELIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ORNITHODOROS; RELAPSING FEVER; TICK INFESTATIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 49849090615     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.idc.2008.03.006     Document Type: Review

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