Indian tick typhus mimicking as rocky mountain spotted fever: A case report

Journal of Communicable Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 83-85

  Jain, S K ^a   Khan, J A ^a   Mittal, Veena ^a   Kumar, Kaushal ^a   Venkatesh, S ^a   Jain, D C ^a   Lal, Shiv ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ARTICLE; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RICKETTSIA CONORII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; RICKETTSIA CONORII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER;

EID: 53649088611     PISSN: 00195138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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