Clinical characteristics of acute Q fever, scrub typhus, and murine typhus with delayed defervescence despite doxycycline treatment

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 441-446

  Lai, Chung Hsu ^a   Huang, Chun Kai ^a   Weng, Hui Ching ^b   Chung, Hsing Chun ^a   Liang, Shiou Haur ^a   Lin, Jiun Nong ^a   Lin, Chih Wen ^a   Hsu, Chuan Yuan ^a   Lin, Hsi Hsun ^a  

^a E DA HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; DOXYCYCLINE; LIVER ENZYME; STEROID;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED DEFERVESCENCE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; JAUNDICE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; Q FEVER; RICKETTSIOSIS; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEROLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIRUS DETECTION;

MURINAE;

EID: 51949099329     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2008.79.441     Document Type: Article

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