Clinical characteristics of the autumn-winter type scrub typhus cases in south of Shandong province, northern China

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Liu, Yun Xi ^a   Feng, Dan ^a   Suo, Ji Jiang ^a   Xing, Yu Bin ^a   Liu, Gang ^a   Liu, Li Hua ^a   Xiao, Hong Ju ^a   Jia, Ning ^a   Gao, Yan ^a   Yang, Hong ^b   Zuo, Shu Qing ^b   Zhang, Pan He ^b   Zhao, Zhong Tang ^c   Min, Jing Si ^d   Feng, Pei Tian ^e   Ma, Shu Bin ^f   Liang, Song ^g   Cao, Wu Chun ^b  

^a CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Department of Internal Medicine   (China)

^e Shangye Township Hospital   (China)

^f Fangcheng Township Hospital   (China)

^g OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CHILD; CHILL; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEADACHE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFANT; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYALGIA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; WINTER; BLOOD; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEASON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEASONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650081184     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-9-82     Document Type: Article

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