A new tick-transmitted disease due to Rickettsia slovaca

Lancet

Volumn 350, Issue 9071, 1997, Pages 112-113

  Raoult, D ^a,b   Berbis, Ph ^a   Roux, V ^a   Xu, W ^a   Maurin, M ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANIMAL; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LETTER; PARASITE VECTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIOSIS; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ARACHNID VECTORS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TICKS;

EID: 0031565599     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)61814-4     Document Type: Article

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