Murine typhus in two travelers returning from Bali, Indonesia: An underdiagnosed disease

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 356-358

  Takeshita, Nozomi ^a   Imoto, Kazuya ^b   Ando, Shuji ^c   Yanagisawa, Kunio ^a   Ohji, Goh ^b   Kato, Yasuyuki ^a   Sakata, Akiko ^c   Hosokawa, Naoto ^b   Kishimoto, Toshio ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Kameda General Hospital   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFCAPENE; CEFTRIAXONE; CREATININE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; LIVER ENZYME; MINOCYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; BODY TEMPERATURE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ERYTHEMA; EYE PAIN; FACE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEMATURIA; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; INDONESIA; JAPAN; JAPANESE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; PLASMODIUM; PROTEINURIA; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RICKETTSIOSIS; SALMONELLOSIS; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRAVEL; TREATMENT DURATION; TRUNK; TYPHUS; URINALYSIS;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INDONESIA; JAPAN; MALE; MINOCYCLINE; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYPHUS, ENDEMIC FLEA-BORNE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956195170     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2010.00438.x     Document Type: Article

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