The interface between research and the diagnosis of an emerging tick-borne disease, human ehrlichiosis due to Ehrlichia chaffeensis

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 137-142

  Dawson, Jacqueline E ^a   Warner, Cynthia K ^a   Standaert, Steven ^a   Olsan, James G ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKOPENIA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESEARCH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030059397     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.156.2.137     Document Type: Review

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