Outcome of intravenous azithromycin therapy in patients with complicated scrub typhus compared with that of doxycycline therapy using propensity-matched analysis

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1488-1493

  Jang, Mi Ok ^a   Jang, Hee Chang ^a   Kim, Uh Jin ^a   Ahn, Joon Hwan ^a   Kang, Seung Ji ^a   Jung, Sook In ^a   Shin, Hee Young ^a   Park, Kyung Hwa ^a  

^a Chonnam National University Medical School   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RISK FACTOR; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEROLOGY; SHOCK; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DOXYCYCLINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SCRUB TYPHUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84896837437     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01996-13     Document Type: Article

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