Brazilian spotted fever: Two faces of a same disease? A comparative study of clinical aspects between an old and a new endemic area in Brazil

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages 207-208

  Angerami, R N ^a   da Silva, A M R ^b   Nascimento, E M M ^c   Colombo, S ^c   Wada, M Y ^d   dos Santos, F C P ^c   Mancini, D M ^d   de Oliveira, R C ^d   Katz, G ^e   Martins, E C ^d   da Silva, L J ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b Secretaria de Estado da Saúde de Santa Catarina   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^d MINISTÉRIO DA SAÚDE   (Brazil)

^e Centro de Vigilância Epidemiológica Prof Alexandre Vranjac   (Brazil)

^f NOVARTIS VACCINES AND DIAGNOSTICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAZIL; BRAZILIAN SPOTTED FEVER; COMA; CONJUNCTIVAL HYPEREMIA; CONVULSION; DIARRHEA; FEVER; GANGRENE; HEADACHE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETHALITY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; SPLENOMEGALY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VOMITING;

EID: 73049111171     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2008.02160.x     Document Type: Article

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