Diagnosis of scrub typhus in Malaysian Aborigines using nested polymerase chain reaction

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 580-583

  Tay, S T ^a   Nazma, S ^b   Rohani, M Y ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Malaysia)

^b Hospital Gombak   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALAYSIA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RACE; SCRUB TYPHUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; INFANT; MALAYSIA; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SCRUB TYPHUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030225006     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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