Tick bite fever in black South Africans - A rare disease?

Journal of Infection

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 235-237

  Cohen, G L ^a   Blumberg, L S ^b   Karstaedt, A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b S A Institute for Medical Research   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NEGRO; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIOSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; TICK BITE; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

EID: 0029888784     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-4453(96)80026-0     Document Type: Article

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