Short report: Endemic (murine) typhus in returned travelers from Asia, a case series - Clues to early diagnosis and comparison with dengue

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 701-703

  Raby, Edward ^a   Dyer, John R ^b  

^a ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b FREMANTLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; MEROPENEM; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DENGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INDONESIA; MALE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RICKETTSIOSIS; SOMNOLENCE; TRAVEL; TYPHUS; VOMITING; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; RICKETTSIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; DENGUE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; INDONESIA; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; RICKETTSIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRAVEL; TYPHUS, ENDEMIC FLEA-BORNE; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877116622     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.12-0590     Document Type: Article

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