Nine cases of Japan spotted fever diagnosed at our hospital in 2008

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 430-434

  Kondo, Makoto ^a   Nishii, Masami ^a   Gabazza, Esteban C ^b   Kurokawa, Ichiro ^b   Akachi, Shigehiro ^c  

^a Ise Municipal General Hospital   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Mie Prefectural Health and Environment Research Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALONAL; CEFCAPENE PIVOXIL; LEVOFLOXACIN; MINOCYCLINE; PARACETAMOL; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEER; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; JAPAN SPOTTED FEVER; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PURPURA; RICKETTSIA JAPONICA; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; SYMPTOM; TICK; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS;

EID: 77951993389     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: 13654632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2010.04359.x     Document Type: Article

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