Rickettsial infections: Indian perspective

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 157-164

  Rathi, Narendra ^a   Rathi, Akanksha ^a  

^a Rathi Children's Hospital and Maternity Home   (India)

Author keywords

Rickettsia; Spotted fever; Typhus fever; Vasculitis; Weil Felix test

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DOXYCYCLINE; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; OFLOXACIN; PEFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ROXYTHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG INDICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEVER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG EDEMA; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYALGIA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RASH; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIOSIS; SEROLOGY; SKIN NECROSIS; TICK BITE; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TOOTH DISCOLORATION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VASCULITIS;

EID: 76649117415     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: 00196061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13312-010-0024-3     Document Type: Review

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