Delay in tetracycline treatment increases the risk of complications in tsutsugamushi disease: Data from the japanese diagnosis procedure combination database

Internal Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-42

  Yasunaga, Hideo ^a   Horiguchi, Hiromasa ^a   Kuwabara, Kazuaki ^b   Hashimoto, Hideki ^c   Matsuda, Shinya ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diagnosis procedure combination; Tetracycline; Tsutsugamushi disease

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE FOSFATEX; LEVOFLOXACIN; MINOCYCLINE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGE; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM HEMORRHAGE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MONOTHERAPY; PNEUMONIA; REFERENCE DATABASE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SCRUB TYPHUS; THERAPY DELAY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SCRUB TYPHUS; TETRACYCLINES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651230572     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.50.4220     Document Type: Article

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