The Third Case of Japanese Spotted Fever on Tokunoshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture Cured with Tetracycline Alone and Epidemiological Investigation-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Third Case of Japanese Spotted Fever on Tokunoshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture Cured with Tetracycline Alone and Epidemiological Investigation

Published:2018-07-20 Issue:4 Volume:92 Page:547-551
ISSN:0387-5911
Container-title:Kansenshogaku Zasshi
language:en
Short-container-title:J. J. A. Inf. D

Author:

KOBAYASHI Akira¹,GOKUTEN Mutsuyo²,FUJITA Hiromi³,SUZUKI Maki⁴,IWASAKI Hiromichi⁵

Affiliation:

1. Division of Internal Medicine, Nanmei-kai Miyagami Hospital

2. Kagoshima Prefectural Institute of Environmental Research and Public Health

3. Mahara Institute of Medical Acarology

4. Department of Pharmacy, Nanmei-kai Miyagami Hospital

5. Department of Infection Control and Prevention, Faculty of Medical Science, University of Fukui

Publisher

The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases

Subject

General Medicine

Link

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/kansenshogakuzasshi/92/4/92_547/_pdf

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