Meta-analysis of drug treatment for scrub typhus in Asia

Internal Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 2313-2320

  Fang, Yirong ^a,c   Huang, Zhaohui ^b   Tu, Chunyu ^b   Zhang, Lijie ^c   Ye, Dongqing ^a   Zhu, Bao Ping ^c  

^a ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shaoxing Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

Meta analysis; Randomized controlled trial; Scrub typhus; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; ROXITHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; ASIA; DRUG EFFICACY; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RASH; SCRUB TYPHUS; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ASIA; AZITHROMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SCRUB TYPHUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84867785993     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.7816     Document Type: Article

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