Tick bites and skin rashes

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 132-138

  Elston, Dirk M ^a  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropod borne; Fever; Rash; Tick; Vector

Indexed keywords

ATOVAQUONE; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; PENTAMIDINE; PRIMAQUINE; PYRIMETHAMINE; QUININE; SULFADIAZINE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ANAPLASMOSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEVER; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; RASH; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AMBLYOMMII; RICKETTSIA PARKERI; RICKETTSIOSIS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SOUTH AMERICA; TICK BITE; TICK BORNE DISEASE; UNITED STATES; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DOXYCYCLINE; EXANTHEMA; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT CONTROL; SOUTH AMERICA; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77649253801     PISSN: 09517375     EISSN: 14736527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QCO.0b013e328335b09b     Document Type: Review

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