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Antibiotics for treating scrub typhus

BACKGROUND: Scrub typhus, an important cause of acute fever in Asia, is caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, an obligate intracellular bacterium. Antibiotics currently used to treat scrub typhus include tetracyclines, chloramphenicol, macrolides, and rifampicin. OBJECTIVES: To assess and compare the ef...

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Autores principales: El Sayed, Iman, Liu, Qin, Wee, Ian, Hine, Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2018
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6485465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30246875
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD002150.pub2