Flea-borne Rickettsioses: Ecologic Considerations

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 319-327

  Azad, Abdu F ^a   Radulovic, Suzana ^a   Higgins, James A ^a   Noden, B H ^a   Troyer, Jill M ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CAT; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FLEA; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; OPOSSUM; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RICKETTSIOSIS; TYPHUS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CALIFORNIA; CATS; DISEASE VECTORS; DOGS; ECOSYSTEM; FLEAS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; OPOSSUMS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; TEXAS; TYPHUS, ENDEMIC FLEA-BORNE;

EID: 0031183188     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0303.970308     Document Type: Article

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