Scrub typhus in Southern India: Are we doing enough?

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 149-151

  Razak, Abdul ^a   Sathyanarayanan, Vishwanath ^a   Prabhu, Mukhyaprana ^a   Sangar, Madhusudan ^a   Balasubramanian, R ^a  

^a KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MENINGITIS; MYALGIA; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCRUB TYPHUS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SEROLOGY; SHOCK;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEASONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI;

EID: 77954388087     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/td.2010.090508     Document Type: Article

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