Clinicoepidemiological study of murine typhus on the Greek island of Evia

✍ Scribed by Y. Tselentis; T. L. Babalis; D. Chrysanthis; A. Gikas; G. Chaliotis; D. Raoult

• Book ID: 104640907
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 437 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0393-2990
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00144812

✦ Synopsis

Cases of murine typhus were described in ChaiNs, capital town of the island Evia in Greece. In the present work a prospective study on murine typhus was carried out in Chalkis General Hospital in 1985, is presented. During this year 49 cases, serologicaly confirmed using indirect fluorescence assay, were diagnosed. Signs and symptoms of the patients as well as preliminary epidemiological data are reported in this paper.