Short report: Prevalence of antibodies against spotted fever, murine typhus, and Q fever rickettsiae in humans living in Zambia

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 70-72

  Okabayashi, Tamaki ^a   Hasebe, Futoshi ^b   Samui, Kenny L ^c   Mweene, Aaron S ^c   Pandey, Shanker G ^c   Yanase, Tsuyoshi ^a   Muramatsu, Yasukazu ^a   Ueno, Hiroshi ^a   Morita, Chiharu ^a  

^a RAKUNO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CATTLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; Q FEVER; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RICKETTSIOSIS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SEROPREVALENCE; TYPHUS; ZAMBIA;

EID: 0032764460     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1999.61.70     Document Type: Article

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