Pregnancy Outcome in Relation to Treatment of Murine Typhus and Scrub Typhus Infection: A Fever Cohort and a Case Series Analysis

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  McGready, Rose ^a,b   Prakash, John Antony Jude ^c   Benjamin, Santosh Joseph ^c   Watthanaworawit, Wanitda ^a   Anantatat, Tippawan ^d   Tanganuchitcharnchai, Ampai ^d   Ling, Clare L ^a,b   Tan, Saw Oo ^a   Ashley, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Pimanpanarak, Mupawjay ^a   Blacksell, Stuart D ^b,d   Day, Nicholas P ^b,d   Singhasivanon, Pratap ^d   White, Nicholas J ^b,d   Nosten, François ^a,b   Paris, Daniel H ^b,d  

^a MAHIDOL OXFORD TROPICAL MEDICINE RESEARCH UNIT   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^d MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERTAPENEM; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PARACETAMOL; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FEVER CLEARANCE TIME; HUMAN; MALARIA; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; MURINE TYPHUS; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PYELONEPHRITIS; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; SCRUB TYPHUS; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYPHUS; FEVER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THAILAND; TYPHUS, ENDEMIC FLEA-BORNE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCRUB TYPHUS; THAILAND; TYPHUS, ENDEMIC FLEA-BORNE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929830216     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003327     Document Type: Article

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