Single-dose doxycycline treatment of louse-borne relapsing fever and epidemic typhus.

• Authors: P L Perine, D W Krause, S Awoke, J E McDade
• Journal: Lancet (London, England) (Lancet) Vol. 2 Issue 7883 Pg. 742-4 (Sep 28 1974) ISSN: 0140-6736 [Print] England
• PMID: 4143011 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Doxycycline

Topics

• Administration, Oral
• Adolescent
• Adult
• Borrelia (immunology, isolation & purification)
• Complement Fixation Tests
• Doxycycline (administration & dosage, therapeutic use)
• Ethiopia
• Female
• Humans
• Lice Infestations (complications)
• Male
• Relapsing Fever (drug therapy, etiology, microbiology)
• Rickettsia prowazekii (immunology, isolation & purification)
• Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne (drug therapy, etiology, microbiology)