Acute sensorineural hearing loss and severe otalgia due to scrub typhus

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages 173-

  Kang, Ji In ^a   Kim, Dong Min ^a   Lee, Joonhan ^a  

^a Chosun University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING RATE; CASE REPORT; DEHYDRATION; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; ESCHAR; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; OTALGIA; PATHOGENESIS; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSE RATE; RASH; SCRUB TYPHUS; SKIN DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; EARACHE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 70549107868     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-9-173     Document Type: Article

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