Clinical and laboratory findings associated with severe scrub typhus

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kim, Dong Min ^a   Kim, Seok W ^a   Choi, Seong Hyung ^a   Yun, Na R ^a  

^a Chosun University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; MACROLIDE; RIFAMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEATH; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MORTALITY; MYALGIA; MYOCARDITIS; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RASH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCRUB TYPHUS; SHOCK; TREATMENT DURATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 77951517706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-108     Document Type: Article

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