Reactivity of human sera to different strains of granulocytic ehrlichiae in immunodiagnostic assays

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 178, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1835-1838

  Magnarelli, Louis A ^a   Ijdo, Jacob W ^b   Dumler, J Stephen ^b   Heimer, Robert ^b   Fikrig, Erol ^b  

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

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CONNECTICUT; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GRANULOCYTES; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HUMANS; NEUTROPHILS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 0031766133     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314516     Document Type: Article

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