Suspected Brazilian purpuric fever, Brazilian Amazon region

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 675-676

  Santana Porto, Eucilene A ^a   Oliveira, Adriana A ^a   Da Costa, Marcos R M ^b   Pinheiro, Amiraldo ^c   Oliveira, Consuelo ^a   Lopes, Maria L ^a   Pereira, Luiz E ^d   Sacchi, Claudio ^d   Aráujo, Wildo N ^a   Sobel, Jeremy ^a,e  

^a MINISTÉRIO DA SAÚDE   (Brazil)

^b Municipal Secretariat of Health   (Brazil)

^c State Immunization Program of the Pará s State Secretariat of Public Health   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^e CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; RIFAMPICIN; SULFANILAMIDE DERIVATIVE;

BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAZIL; BRAZILIAN PURPURIC FEVER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DENGUE VIRUS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PURPURA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; VIRUS EXAMINATION; VOMITING;

BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FEVER; HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PURPURA;

EID: 65349099472     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1504.090014     Document Type: Letter

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