Distribution, diversity, and host specificity of Bartonella in rodents from the southeastern United States

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 578-588

  Kosoy, Michael Y ^a   Regnery, Russell L ^a   Tzianabos, Theodore ^a   Marston, Eric L ^a   Jones, Dana C ^a   Green, Douglas ^a   Maupin, Gary O ^a,b   Olson, James G ^a   Childs, James E ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; CITRATE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; BARTONELLACEAE; CRICETIDAE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RAT; RODENT;

EID: 0030665805     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1997.57.578     Document Type: Article

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