Laboratory diagnosis of rickettsial diseases

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 301-306

  Kostman, Jay R ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT FIXATION; DNA PROBE; EHRLICHIOSIS; ELECTROIMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; REVIEW; RICKETTSIOSIS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SCRUB TYPHUS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; TYPHUS;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; Q FEVER; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SCRUB TYPHUS; TYPHUS, EPIDEMIC LOUSE-BORNE;

EID: 0029896279     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0738-081X(96)00016-8     Document Type: Article

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