Fever with rash in patients returning from popular tourist resort phuket, Thailand: Dengue-or measles?

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 317-319

  Kantele, Anu ^a,b,c   Mattila, Leena ^a   Ott, Kristi ^d   Davidkin, Irja ^e   Siikamäki, Heli ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d West Tallinn Central Hospital for Infectious Diseases   (Estonia)

^e NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; COMMON COLD; CONJUNCTIVITIS; COUGHING; DENGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MEASLES; PAPULAR RASH; PNEUMONIA; RASH; THAILAND; TOURISM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DENGUE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXANTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALE; MEASLES; THAILAND; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865861638     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2012.00639.x     Document Type: Article

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