Acute transient sensorineural hearing loss due to Anaplasma phagocytophilum

Wisconsin Medical Journal

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 288-290

  Ghera, Princy ^a   Kasirye, Yusuf ^a   Choudhry, Muhammad Waqas ^a   Shaw, Gene R ^a   Ejercito, Victor S ^a  

^a MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYCLOBENZAPRINE; DOXYCYCLINE;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ACUTE TRANSIENT SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS; AGED; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; CELL INCLUSION; CHILL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GIEMSA STAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; INNER EAR DISEASE; MYALGIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TICK BORNE DISEASE; VIRUS INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84855291127     PISSN: 10981861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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