Human Tularemia in France, 2006-2010

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Maurin, Max ^a   Pelloux, Isabelle ^a   Brion, Jean Paul ^b   Del Banõ, Jeanne Noëlle ^a   Picard, Aleth ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PRISTINAMYCIN; ROXITHROMYCIN; SPIRAMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELLULITIS; CHILD; CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; FRANCE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHANGITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; NONHUMAN; OTORRHEA; PAROTID GLAND ABSCESS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; TULAREMIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TULAREMIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054730114     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir612     Document Type: Article

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