Characterization of rickettsial diseases in a hospital-based population in central Tunisia

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1166, Issue , 2009, Pages 167-171

  Kaabia, Naoufel ^a   Letaief, Amel ^a,b  

^a Farhat Hached   (Tunisia)

^b FARHAT HACHED HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Rickettsia conorii; Rickettsia felis; Rickettsia prowazekii; Rrickettsia typhi; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; DOXYCYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONJUNCTIVITIS; COUGHING; CYTOLYSIS; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGISM; MENINGITIS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MURINE TYPHUS; MYALGIA; MYOCARDITIS; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RASH; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA FELIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SUMMER; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TUNISIA; TYPHUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; IXODIDA; MURINAE; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; TYPHUS GROUP;

EID: 67649679247     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04521.x     Document Type: Article

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