Re-emergence of scrub typhus in northeast India

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Khan, Siraj Ahmed ^a   Dutta, Prafulla ^a   Khan, Abdul Mabood ^a   Topno, Rashmee ^a   Borah, Jani ^a   Chowdhury, Pritom ^a   Mahanta, Jagadish ^a  

^a REGIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE;

COMA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; HEADACHE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; INDIA; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAUSEA; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEIZURE; SPLENOMEGALY; VOMITING;

HUMANS; INDIA; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEASONS;

EID: 84869230247     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: 18783511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2012.05.1030     Document Type: Letter

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