Outbreak of epidemic typhus associated with trench fever in Burundi

Lancet

Volumn 352, Issue 9125, 1998, Pages 353-358

  Tissot Dupont, H ^a   Roux, V ^a   Birtles, R J ^a   Ndihokubwayo, J B ^b   Faugere, B ^c   Abegbinni, R ^d   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b CHU de Bujumbura   (Burundi)

^c Hopital Felix Houphouet Boigny   (France)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BORRELIA; BURUNDI; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LOUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; REFUGEE; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIOSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; TYPHUS; WAR;

EID: 0032145491     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)12433-3     Document Type: Article

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