Direct cultivation of the causative agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 334, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 209-215

  Goodman, Jesse L ^a,f   Nelson, Curtis ^a   Vitale, Blaise ^b   Madigan, John E ^c   Dumler, J Stephen ^d   Kurtti, Timothy J ^e   Munderloh, Ulrike G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Grantsburg Clinic   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f UNIV OF MINNESOTA HOSP AND CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS;

AGRANULOCYTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTES; HL-60 CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0030044553     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199601253340401     Document Type: Article

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