Scrub typhus involving central nervous system, India, 2004-2006

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1641-1643

  Mahajan, Sanjay K ^a   Rolain, Jean Marc ^b   Kanga, Anil ^a   Raoult, Didier ^b  

^a INDIRA GANDHI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AZITHROMYCIN; BILIRUBIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CREATININE; DOXYCYCLINE; UREA;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHILL; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INDIA; JAUNDICE; LETTER; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MENINX DISORDER; MYALGIA; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PROTEINURIA; RASH; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; RIGOR; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEIZURE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROMBICULIDAE;

ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 77958542010     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1610.100456     Document Type: Letter

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