Human exposure to a granulocytic Ehrlichia and other tick-borne agents in Connecticut

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2823-2827

  Magnarelli, Louis A ^a   Ijdo, Jacob W ^b   Anderson, John F ^a   Padula, Steven J ^c   Flavell, Richard A ^b   Fikrig, Erol ^b  

^a Connecticut Agric Exp Station ^*  (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LEUKOPENIA; LYME DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BABESIA MICROTI; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS;

EID: 0031657882     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.10.2823-2827.1998     Document Type: Article

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