Jail Fever (Epidemic Typhus) Outbreak in Burundi

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 357-360

  Raoult, D ^a   Roux, V ^a   Ndihokubwayo, J B ^d   Bise, G ^b   Baudon, D ^c   Martet, G ^c   Birtles, R ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c SERVICE DE SANTÉ DES ARMÉES   (France)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; PRIMER DNA;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BURUNDI; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LOUSE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; TYPHUS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BURUNDI; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; LICE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TYPHUS, EPIDEMIC LOUSE-BORNE;

EID: 0031181232     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0303.970313     Document Type: Article

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