Drug treatment of scrub typhus

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-4

  Rajapakse, Senaka ^a   Rodrigo, Chaturaka ^b   Fernando, Sumadhya Deepika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b University Medical Unit   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; TELITHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SCRUB TYPHUS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; THAILAND; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DOXYCYCLINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PREGNANCY; RIFAMPIN; SCRUB TYPHUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650773911     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/td.2010.100311     Document Type: Review

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